[OSM-talk] Personal tags

[Bruce Cowan]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 14:58 +0200, Lambertus wrote:
> 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'.

This is fairly similar, but some people don't submit their tags as
proposed features.  Now that you mention this, why would they be more
willing to add their tags to this page?  Oops.
-- 
Bruce Cowan <bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com>