[OSM-talk] Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

[Pieren]

Hi all,

Today I saw for the first time on the area I'm contributing a tag
called traffic_sign=city_limit. Then I went on the map features and
discovered it. Huh, why not... I'm not watching the map features
changes since the page length is exceeding 100 meters ...
But I'm reading this list and others and never noticed a mention about
such a key proposal. Anyway, marking the beginning/end of a town can
be helpful because it's usually changing the speedlimit, etc.
Then I click on the wiki page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:traffic_sign and then surprise:
1. you have to read carefully at the end of the page or in the
discussion tab to see that it is not an "approved" key, it is a
"best-practice-idea". Well, that's a new concept. Until now, we had
two categories of tags : the ones proposed and discussed on the wiki
but never "approved" by a vote or a poll but widely used in the
database, the ones discussed and approved, and now, the
"best-practice-ideas" discussed and approved by three persons. It's
true it's going faster. Or I missed the announcement somewhere on a
mailing-list...
2. It says that the main use is for city_limit. Again, why not. But
the other examples are very questionable : "traffic_sign=maxspeed:30"
or "traffic_sign=DE:239" break some practices we had until now like
key=value and not key=key:value or like key:country=value and not
key=country:value.

So, any comments about this Best-practice-idea process ? Is it
possible to have a real discussion about the examples or is it too
late ?

Pieren