[OSM-talk] Applicability of wiki tagging and votes: may, should or must

[Paul Norman]

On 1/29/2016 8:49 AM, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
> On 29 January 2016 at 17:37, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "but that's not much to do with tagging diversity" - I would dispute
>> it, from my personal experience. Tagging diversity IS one of real
>> problems in using OSM data.
> +1.

I'm going to disagree, even though I understand exactly why both Mateusz 
and Matthijs come to this conclusion. As an OpenStreetMap Carto 
maintainer, tag fragmentation is a pain. For most data consumers? It 
doesn't matter. Most of the time they're using a small number of well 
established tags, and if they run into an edge case where there's tag 
fragmentation they're not going put in a great deal of time.