On Oct 9, 2022, at 2:10 AM, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > Oct 9, 2022, 10:53 by stevea...@softworkers.com: > There is also the more “rogue” (not well-sanctioned, rather “under the > radar,” maybe looked at by some or many as “disapproved” or “questionable…”) > method of simply “any tag you like, and using it in the wild” (without the > whole Proposal process).
> Using https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like to produce new > tags > is well sanctioned and normal and how we got most of our tags. OK, you say my choice of “not well-sanctioned” is erroneous; I appreciate your feedback. > Using at least part of proposal process (RFC) may help but it does not make > other tags > or tagging schemes invalid. Yet, I can’t help but notice there is a distinct trend towards many proposals being offered. The great majority of these present as thoughtful and well-developed, resulting in (wiki) documentation ready-made and richly-detailed, as well as at least a kernel of community familiar with its details. With a “coined” tag, I won’t make the mistake of saying these aren’t true, but it is true that they are less well-developed (and maybe don’t need to be), are often less well-documented and may not have the wider community familiarity and acceptance of a tag which became Approved through the proposal process. Again, thank you for pointing out that both are perfectly valid. However, while they both might have the same “validity,” I (for one, and I believe many in OSM) feel the many differences between these two “origin stories” of newer tags. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
