[OSM-talk] Undiscussed (?) edits removing lesser-used highway=* tags

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2015-11-10 8:48 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch>:

> One of the great strengths of OSM is that you can invent tagging on the
> fly and trying to suppress that just so that the data consumers have it
> easy, is misguided. In the end the main way our tagging evolves is be
> contributors trying to map stuff that doesn't have a popular tagging
> scheme associated and not allowing that will reduce new tagging to that
> decided by a committee.
>



+1, very well put. I have in the past seen this more than once: invented a
new tag to try something out, someone else comes along (typically a remote
mapper with no knowledge whatsoever about the place) and tries to
"normalize" the new tag into something common (but not applicable). Even
fixing "typos" has to be done very carefully and hesitant, limited to
actual typos like "highway=residental" and not extending to assumed
synonyms.

Cheers,
Martin
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