On Wednesday 05 December 2018, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > [...] > > This is reasonable; many features can be of interest to tourists, and > tourism=attraction doesn't provide much information. Is it an area of > shops? A beach? A theme park? A historic monument? > > However, there is a preset in the JOSM editor that allows > tourism=attraction to be used as the top-level tag. > > Is it necessary to use tourism=attraction as the only tag for certain > features?
Well - the main problem with tourism=attraction is that it has no consistent application hence no real meaning as a tag so you can't really say if it is a standalone tag or not. What you can say is that: * it is widely used as the only characterizing tag of a feature (usually just tourism=attraction + name). * it is not a verifiable tag in either variant, the closest you could interpret it to mean is indicating some kind of wikipedia-like notability. * it is often used as a 'lazy tag' - i.e. used by mappers who did not want to look for or to invent a more meaningful characterization. > (Currently, tourism=attraction alone is rendered only as a name label > on the Openstreetmap-carto style, without an border, area colour or > icon. Either we need to add an icon or outline, or we can remove this > from the list of rendered features. If the wiki is correct then it > can be removed, because properly-tagged features should have another, > more specific tag that can be rendered) It would certainly be good to stop rendering it to incentivize mappers to choose more meaningful tags instead but it also should be said that this is essentially a case of 'damage done' - the tag is already meaningless, stopping to render it would help better tagging in the future, it would not in any way add meaning to the tag as it is already used. We have however many other tags where OSM-Carto recently added or changed rendering in ways that provide mapping incentives agaist the established meaning of the tags. This and the resulting dilution of existing value and precision in OSM data is going to be a much bigger problem. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
