[OSM-talk] Public notary (Map feature POI proposal)

[Roy Wallace]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 06.01.2010 15:41, schrieb Valent Turkovic:
>>
>> ... I didn't understand that people just use keys
>> that they want no matter it there aren't listed in OSM features list
>> on Wiki...
...
> If there's "no such thing" in the Map Features and a search in the wiki
> proposals also provides no good matching alternative, it's a lot better
> to tag something "in your own tag words" than not map it at all.

If you do this, just make sure the tags that you use are
self-explanatory, explicit, and verifiable. Add a note=* with more
information if there's any chance you may be misunderstood.