As an American English speaker, monitoring station seems better than measurement station.
Tod -- Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse my brevity. malenki <[email protected]> wrote: >At the moment there exist: >man_made=measurement_station >man_made=monitoring_station >Both for mapping the same kind of objects. >After three years of coexisting there should be finally a cleanup > >A little about the history of the tags: >The proposal for man_made=measurement_station was created on 2nd April >2010.¹ >"measurement_station" was created by German user grossing and me >pushing >him a little. Since in German language a lot of stuff regarding weather >gets "gemessen" so "measured" sounded the best pick. > >The tag page man_made=monitoring_station was created on 20th May 2010, >² >its evolution is explained on its talk page. > >Question one: >What do you think is the better matching name for the tag - >monitoring_station or >measurement_station? > >Question two: > >After consenting to one tag are there any voices against an automatic >unifying of the tagging, that is, changing all measurement_station to >monitoring_station or vice versa? > >Momentarily usage: >measurement_station: 1 766 times >monitoring_station: 2 741 times (where 1773 objects seem to come from >various imports.) > >Either way I would for things monitored/measured stick with the tags >from monitoring_station. It is better to list them each with a single >key/value-pair instead of a semicolon separated row. >monitoring:weather=yes >monitoring:water_quality=yes >vs >monitoring=water_quality;weather > >But I would not define any settings as default like is done here: >http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dmonitoring_station#Additional_Tags > >Your opinions? > >Regards >Thomas > >¹ >http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features/measurement_station&action=history >² >http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:man_made%3Dmonitoring_station&action=history > >_______________________________________________ >Tagging mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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