[OSM-talk] scuba dive sites

[Nic Roets]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Saturday 22 May 2010 15:40:25 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:57, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> > On Saturday 22 May 2010 11:27:08 Nic Roets wrote:
>> >> > I've seen some dive sites tagged as place=locality
>> >>
>> >> AFAIK, place=locality indicates a place where people stay...
>> >
>> > No, locality was introduced for named geographic places where nobody
>> > lives.

OK. Thanks. The wiki describes it nicely.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place=locality

>>
>> Maybe, but in practice place=locality gets tacked on to a lot of
>> random stuff you'd like to have rendered *now*.
>
> So, you have noticed there are people tagging something as something else to
> get it rendered (commonly known as "tagging for the renderer"). That doesn't
> make it right or turn it into it's opposite meaning.

I'm just afraid that a year from now, someone will come along and
invent 6 new tags (head, bay, peak, gulf etc) and immediately retag
those as he sees fit. Because that is exactly what happened to
sport=diving.