Sep 5, 2020, 03:37 by tagging@openstreetmap.org:

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> On 9/4/2020 6:24 PM, Mateusz Konieczny      via Tagging wrote:
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>> Sep 4, 2020, 18:19 by >> tagging@openstreetmap.org>> :
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>>> node and discovered the shelter_type=rock_shelter subtag,          but the 
>>> map in
>>> question didn't render it any differently. Revisiting the          site in 
>>> fair
>>> weather, I found a tiny crack under a ledge that *might*          have kept 
>>> a
>>> child dry. It was very satisfying to delete that node.
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>> This seems to be a clear case of incorrect tagging of        something that\
>> has not actually existed.
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>> natural=rock_shelter and any other tagging of rock shelter        would be 
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>> incorrect
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> Assuming that I located the correct crack, it was undoubtedly a      case of 
> overzealous tagging. The problem I see is that the      definition of rock 
> shelter is subjective enough that this sort of      tagging will happen from 
> time to time. Some mappers will stretch      the definition because they just 
> love adding features. And since      rock shelters are currently a subtag of 
> amenity=shelter, people      looking for amenity=shelter -- with the possibly 
> live-saving      properties that implies -- will be misled.
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> Tagging a rock shelter any other way -- natural=rock_shelter,      
> amenity=rock_shelter, whatever -- and we're no longer bound to      
> fulfilling the existing expectations of the parent tag.
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> Jason
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The problem is that I want to have way to find rock shelters usable as shelter 
for humans.

If natural=rock_shelter is not bound to      fulfilling the existing 
expectations of the shelter tag,
thenĀ  want new tag that is bound to fulfilling the existing expectations of the 
shelter tag
and can be applied to rock shelters.
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