Hi, On 11.06.19 02:29, Warin wrote: >> Here's the thing. In terms of OSM statuses, "de facto" means that the >> tag is in use. > > Err I thought > 'de facto' = "approved" but before the formal approval process was in place > 'in use' = widely used and in large numbers, sufficient to be recognised > by renders > ' undefined' = low numbers, or restricted use .. some incorrectly place > these as 'in use'
I think it has become clear in a short time that there is no hard-and-fast definition of any of this. The idea that tags even *have* a status was introduced by someone writing wiki templates at some time in the distant past; it's not something that was even discussed as far as I remember, because it never was of any importance. We have never discussed or decided that (a) every tag should have a documented status (b) the status should be the same in all langauages (c) what status values there are and what they mean So your opinion is as good as mine. I'd be tempted to side with Warin here; if "in use" only meant "used anywhere at least once" then taginfo can be used to determine that; only if there's *some* human factor in it would it even make sense. And it could certainly differ across regions. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
