On Sunday 03 February 2019, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > I noticed today that a wiki page for the rarely used key > > "motorcycle:scale" had been accidentally created as > > "Key:motorcycle:scale" > > thank you for this. You are known to put things polite, in all > honesty, there are good reasons to believe this was not > “accidentally” but yet another attempt to sneak mostly unused tags > without further discussion, notice or proposal procedure right into > the established tags section of the wiki. [...]
Just to avoid misunderstandings - it is in principle completely all right to invent tags and document them on tag/key pages without creating a proposal. What is not a good idea is developing complete tagging systems this way without broader consultation. And what is in particular not advisable is creating a one dimensional classification systems based on combination of multiple largely subjective and non-verifiable criteria. This is the exact opposite of good tagging design. By the way: For keys taginfo provides information on the number of different users who have last edited features with this key - in this case 2: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/motorcycle:scale This number could at least for key pages be used to show a warning that a certain key is not well established. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
