I apologize for the unclear wording. I'm not asking if a proposal is needed for creating a new key or value. Anyone can make up a new tag, and this happens hundreds of times a day.
I'm asking: when should a new value should be added to the wiki page "Map Features". The idea is that for a key like "shop=" or "office=", the key itself is enough to define the feature for most purposes. Most map makers or apps will just show one icon for all or most types of shop, and for most types of office, so it's probably fine if users add more of these to Map Features under "Shop" and "Office" - it won't cause any problems. Probably it still should be mentioned in a public forum at least once, but a proposal would be a bit of a waste of time for a specialty tag "shop=fountain_pens" (a shop specializing in selling fountain pens). In contrast, I wouldn't have added "waterway=tidal_channel" to the 3 existing natural waterway types on Map Features without an approved proposal, since that would be a major change to the whole tagging system for waterways which requires community discussion. On 7/31/19, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > sent from a phone > >> On 31. Jul 2019, at 09:20, Warin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> There is no requirement for a proposal for values or keys of any kind. >> A proposal is at best a 'recommendation', not a 'requirement'. > > > +1 > > Cheers Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
