2016-03-03 8:35 GMT+01:00 Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com>: > For example, I agree "sells" would be a better tag than "sale" but sale is > already present in the JOSM preset.
Well, then remove it and change it to "sells:" ;-) Have a look at the current usage of "sale": http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/sale#values while at first this looks like an almost established tag (900+ uses), you'll soon see that it doesn't allow to be interpreted and by what you state it isn't even documented. 72% of values are "yes" 17% are "no" (so what is "sale=yes" supposed to mean, that the shop is for sale? That it does sell something? How many motorcycle shops do not sell something? IMHO these 17% sale=no are ill tagged and should rather not get a shop=motorcycle at all), some few are "used" and "used_only" (there is already a different more established tag for these: http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/second_hand#values ), I can't even guess what sale=brand, sale=retail, sale=architecture, sale=Razzo, sale=brands, sale=off or sale=now-on or sale=Bing mean. My suggestion is to mark the tag as not suggested for application. Rather than introducing new tags via editor presets people should "discuss" new tags (e.g. by dropping a note on the tagging ML), because this way they can be pointed to other tags that are already in use for the same thing or to problems that arise from the proposed way of tagging. After/during this discussion, the intended meaning of a tag should be documented in the wiki to avoid people believing the same tags to mean different things. Cheers, Martin
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