[OSM-talk] Approved Tags (was: Highways with highway=steps)

[Andy Allan]

On 9/28/07, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Peter wrote:
> > I was also musing of a 'clean' version of
> > planet.osm, in addition to the 'let-it-all-hang-out' version, that
> > only
> > includes approved tags
> [...]
>
> This is a sensitive issue. Someone had started to flag some tags on
> Map Features as being "approved", which led to complaints; I have
> meanwhile removed those flags.
>
> Why? A tag being used, a tag being in Map Features, and a tag having
> been through the voting process are currently mostly unrelated -
> there are tags that are used but not in Map Features  (and certainly
> vice versa), and there are tags in Map Features that never went
> through the voting process and so on.
>
> Anyone wanting to classify tags in "approved" and "not (yet)
> approved" would first have to define what exactly "approved" means.
> You will not find any formal approval of "highway=motorway" anywhere
> so maybe it should fall into the "not approved" category ;-)
>
> It would be much easier (and subject to less interpretation) if we
> created a category of "common" or "widespread" tags instad of
> "approved".

Yet difficult still to define. There's probably more gravitystorm:todo
tags than there are continents, for example.

Cheers,
Andy