Re: [Tagging] inuse, defacto

2015-04-19 Thread Andreas Goss
Why is it important? The main thing that matters is than only one definition exists for an item, irrespective of how often it is used. A few months ago I looked a TagInfo for tags that people are using but have no Wiki entry. Once you get closer to like 100 uses and below you find a lot of

Re: [Tagging] inuse, defacto

2015-04-18 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 18.04.2015 09:31, Friedrich Volkmann wrote: So far we have 3 parameters: number of OSM objects, number of real-word objects, number of users. Let's put them into a formula in order to enable objective decisions and avoid edit wars. I don't think it's as easy as that. Other things to

Re: [Tagging] inuse, defacto

2015-04-18 Thread Jan van Bekkum
Why is it important? The main thing that matters is than only one definition exists for an item, irrespective of how often it is used. On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 5:46 PM Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: On 18.04.2015 09:31, Friedrich Volkmann wrote: So far we have 3 parameters: number of

Re: [Tagging] inuse, defacto

2015-04-18 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Friedrich Volkmann b...@volki.at wrote: I recently came across a never proposed tag with some 600 uses marked de-facto. If that's the way to bypass the proposal process, I will never care about proposals any more. How do you know there was any intent to

Re: [Tagging] inuse, defacto

2015-04-17 Thread SomeoneElse
On 17/04/2015 14:38, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: A more useful metric is how many different contributors used the tag. Is anyone aware of any analysis of who (or how many users) first used particular tags, or who (or how many users) accepted a tag by making a subsequent change to an object?

Re: [Tagging] inuse, defacto

2015-04-17 Thread Marc Gemis
It will be hard to come up with a number to distinguish between the two. As others have pointed out on this mailing list before, the actual number of items that can be tagged with a certain tag matters. So in case there are only 600 items in the whole world of that thing, it is de-facto. If there