Because Graeme politely included a question mark, I'll do my best here to offer my interpretation, which might actually approach and "answer" to his question: whether a note=* or a description=*, each of these data are "in" OSM, as OSM is a database. "Downstream" use cases, like a rendering, an overlay, a particular display of OSM data in a particular app on your phone or tablet...these are indeed OSM data, but "filtered" through a particular methodology for DISPLAYING those data. So, while the datum of note=* is different than the datum of description=*, whether one, the other or both are displayed in any particular downstream use case is 100% dependent on whether that "interpretation" (renderer, map editor...) chooses to display this, that or another particular datum.
In short, BOTH "notes are visible to mappers on OSM" AND "descriptions are visible to OSM." This is dependent, of course, on the editor ("mapper use case," if you will) being used, but "data are data." Choosing whether this or that is selected should be driven by which tag to use is more correct, as can be found in our wiki's pages for the note=* tag, or the description=* tag, or community usage, such as taginfo numbers or evidence shown in an Overpass Turbo query of actual in-the-map data. I hope this helps! On Jan 2, 2024, at 2:03 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Only thought there is should the note= possibly be a description= ? > Notes are only visible to mappers on OSM, descriptions show to "everybody" > (?) using it downstream. > > Thanks > Graeme _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au