On 09.01.2017 12:03, Dave F wrote:
On 09/01/2017 09:16, Volker Schmidt wrote:
Please remember that the wiki is intended to document what the common
use is, not what the common use should be.
If you want to change the common use please use the available
discussion channels before changing the wiki.
Volker
I disagree with this. The wiki is guidance for what is considered,
especially for newbies, to be the correct way to tag.
Not only. The wiki is also a reference for data consumers what is meant
by a specific tag.
but to believe a tag is
correct just because it's in the majority is incorrect.
Yes we have historic inconsistencies in OSM tagging, but changing the
wiki description of a 2-Million-use tag is not the way to fix them.
As an example I give water=river/canal/stream which is now preferred
over waterway=riverbank, even though there are fewer occurrences at this
point in time.
Your example is the introduction of a new, more consistent tag, so a
migration can happen.
Back to our example, promoting the use of "landcover=*" to overcome
inconsistencies in "landuse=*" is good; back-changing reality with wiki
redefinitions is not.
tom
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