[OSM-talk] Tag standardisation (was: Tagging concert / music hall)

[Ruben Maes]

2015-07-21 12:04 GMT+02:00 Peter vd Kamp <pkamp at acm.org>:
> Thanks for the answers so far. It's a pity that there is no consensus, because it makes searching more difficult: the user must be aware of the fact that he has to search for different tags.

Yep, that's how OSM works. :p

> I'm fairly new to contribute to Openstreetmap, so I don't know of long term habits for tagging. For the moment I will use amenity=music_hall or amenity=concert_hall. Thanks to this discussion I'm curious about standardization processes regarding metadata in Openstreetmap, but that's a topic for a new thread.

There's the tagging mailing list[1] to which you can subscribe if
you're into discussing tags.

We also have a Feature Proposal Process on the wiki[2]. It's not
perfect and basically if a feature gets approved, that doesn't mean
anything other than that it has been approved. It doesn't guarantee it
will be supported by any data consumer.
It has its merits though: your tagging scheme gets seen by other
mappers and they can comment on special cases or things you may have
overlooked. Things that may not have been noticed before it is too
late if you simply invented a tagging scheme, started using it and
created a wiki page for it.

[1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process

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> On 20 jul. 2015, at 21:28, Malcolm Herring <malcolm.herring at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>> Some concert halls:
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>> Albert Hall, London: attraction=music_venue
>> Concertgebouw, Amsterdam: amenity=theatre
>> Gewandhaus, Leipzig: theatre:genre=philharmonic
>> Musikverein, Vienna: amenity=concert_hall
>> Philharmonie, Berlin: amenity=theatre
>> Symphony Hall, Birmingham: building=concert_hall
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>> Clearly a consensus - NOT!
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