[OSM-talk] Personal tags

[Lambertus]

Bruce Cowan wrote:
> Last night on IRC, the use of personal tags was brought up as a way of
> tagging something that isn't in map features.
>
> The obvious issue with this is that several people may use different
> tags for the same non-standardised feature.
>
> I thought it might be a good idea to start a page on the wiki [1] where
> people can add their tags and their reason for using it.  What can then
> happen is these can be standardised later.
>
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.phpPersonal_tags (doesn't exist
> right now, but will do)
>   
Isn't this nearly identical to the 'Proposed features' pages? Most 
proposed features are also already in use and are awaiting approval to 
become 'official'.