On 04/02/19 10:07, Christoph Hormann wrote:
On Sunday 03 February 2019, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
I noticed today that a wiki page for the rarely used key
"motorcycle:scale" had been accidentally created as
"Key:motorcycle:scale"
thank you for this. You are known to put things polite, in all
honesty, there are good reasons to believe this was not
“accidentally” but yet another attempt to sneak mostly unused tags
without further discussion, notice or proposal procedure right into
the established tags section of the wiki. [...]
Just to avoid misunderstandings - it is in principle completely all
right to invent tags and document them on tag/key pages without
creating a proposal.
Correct. In fact documenting tags - even little used ones should be encouraged.
Further the documentation does not need to be placed in the proposal space,
particularly if the person has no intention of making a proposal.
What is not a good idea is developing complete tagging systems this way
without broader consultation.
The problem is with that 'consultation'. Tends to discourage, divide and
frustrate.
And what is in particular not advisable is creating a one dimensional
classification systems based on combination of multiple largely
subjective and non-verifiable criteria. This is the exact opposite of
good tagging design.
By the way: For keys taginfo provides information on the number of
different users who have last edited features with this key - in this
case 2:
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/motorcycle:scale
This number could at least for key pages be used to show a warning that
a certain key is not well established.
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