On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 23:59, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There's a hierarchy of tag acceptability based upon how much forethought > has gone into it. > Proposed and approved. Proposed and rejected. Proposed and lapsed. > Widely used. > Used once or twice. Used once by somebody who didn't know there was > already an approved tag. > Ideally we document as many of those as possible and indicate how > acceptable they are with the > status. > > My point was that "proposed" is not the same as "informal." Proposing a > tag is part of a formal > discussion process that may lead to acceptance or rejection. Informal is > me wanting to tag > some type of object, being unable to find a suitable tag (or being too > lazy to look), and just making it > up ad hoc. As we had with landuse=clearing a while ago. Which should > probably be documented > as deprecated along with the correct way to do it (multipolygon with an > inner area, maybe without > any other tag if you're unsure what is there other than not-outer). > Informal or ad hoc would be > somebody made up a tag for which there isn't already a better alternative > and it isn't yet in > widespread use. >
So using a real example here, lets go back to my shop=caravan from a few weeks back. I asked what we should tag a caravan dealer as & somebody replied just use shop=caravan as it's already in use, as it was, 140 odd times, but not documented. I then created a page for it, which, after discussions & taking in other points of view, was modified several times, along with several other pages for possible alternatives, suggesting people use the =caravan tag. As the shop=caravan tag was already in use, I didn't put up a formal RFC or ask for a vote - should I have? (& no-one complained at the time that I hadn't) So would you call that tag approved, widely used, informal or what? Thanks Graeme
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