[OSM-talk] Personal tags

[Chris Fleming]

Bruce Cowan wrote:
> 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.
>   
I guess it's a good pre-proposed features option..... possibly less 
formal (if that's possible) but a way for someone to informally start 
saying, hey I'm using this tag. If others agree that it's useful 
generally it can be moved to "Proposed Features"?


Cheers
Chris