(Not sent to tagging list) I think the idea was that a tree with a proper name is an important / landmark tree?
Perhaps you crazy Europeans name your special trees, eg King George's Oak? The other suggestion was to use "landmark=yes" but this key is also not recommended. Someone needs to check how denotation=cluster is actually used now days. Joseph On 7/29/19, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29/07/19 15:26, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: >> I've edited the page: >> >> 1) I reworded some of the helpful changes that Mateusz Konieczny just >> made, for better English style. >> >> 2) I've removed the implication that de facto / approved are >> "recommended" and that "deprecated" / "discardable" etc. are "not >> recommended". >> >> I also removed the suggestion that "de facto" tags are supported by >> rendering / routing / editing software - while this is usually true, >> it isn't what determines if a tag is given "de facto" status. >> >> 3) I removed "obsolete" status from the list with deprecated/discouraged. >> >> However, I now think I figured out what this status is supposed to >> mean: it's supposed to be used for tags that were deprecated, but now >> no longer even appear in the database, so the wiki page is only for >> historical information. >> >> Do we really need a special status for this, or should is it ok if I >> retag the 6 tags with this status to "deprecated"? >> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Tag_descriptions_with_status_%22obsolete%22 >> >> - Tag:abandoned=yes - recommended replacement abandoned:*=* - used 34,000 >> times >> - Tag:amenity=Kneippbecken - approved replacement is >> amenity=kneipp_water_cure - used 0 times >> - Tag:man_made=power_hydro / Tag:man_made=power_nuclear / >> Tag:man_made=power_wind - use power=generator, generator:source=* >> instead - used a couple of times only. >> - Tag:denotation=cluster - for special trees. Recommend to use name=* >> instead with natural=tree. Had been down to 0 uses at one point, but >> now there are a few hundred? > > Gah! use name=* for something other than the name? No. Use the description > key for that. > Edited wiki to remove this suggestion. > >> >> So only amenity=Kneippbecken and man_made=power_* really fit the >> "obsolete" status, though there are a number of tags currently with >> "deprecated" that are also no longer found in the database. >> > Once something has been 'depreciated' but now has little to no presence then > 'obsolete' is a good status for it. > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
