On 17/04/2015, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 are e.g. 1.000.000 such "things", it's more "inuse" > than "de-facto"
A more useful metric is how many different contributors used the tag. 1000 uses by a single user doesn't mean much. > 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 bypass the proposal process ? Tags can reach widespread use without ever having been discussed or documented. Somebody documenting this in a "de-facto proposal" after the fact is a good thing. That doesn't invalidate the usefullness of the more formal tag-creation process using the wiki and mailing-list. >> I will set all the tags I invented to "inuse" >> as soon as I used them once, and to "defacto" as soon as I used them >> twice, because 2 uses are widespread compared to 1. There's obviously some threshold where it's reasonable. Don't mock using an extreme value, it just devaluates your good argument. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
