Joseph,
If you were talking of fast food restaurants, I would understand that we expect
to see these in hundred of countries. But there are features that yes are not
seen as intensively.
One fast food POI counts for one. One 500km route counts also for one.
This Overpass query shows that the tag is used in five provinces / territories
in Canada, plus Norway and Sweden.
Please revert your undelete and if you are not happy with this, you should go
to the Tagging list for discussion.
regard
Pierre
Le mercredi 19 février 2020 09 h 38 min 44 s UTC−5, Joseph Eisenberg
<joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> a écrit :
The tag is documented at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:route%3Dsnowmobile - it has
been used 141 times only. I did not delete the documentation, but I
did remove the tag from
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Map_Features:route, and
added a comment to
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template_talk:Map_Features:route
This does not need to be on the main "Map features" page, which is a
curated list of the most commonly used tags, for new users, since it
is a new tag with few uses. This has nothing to do with my opinion of
the tag. It looks fine to me.
If you wish to add this tag to Map Features, there are 2 options:
1) Create a Proposal page and follow the process to get the tag
Approved (see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features)
2) Map lots of these features and then wait for other mappers to adopt
the tag. If it has been used thousands of times in many different
countries over a period of several years, then it can be added to Map
Features as a "De facto" tag, even without a vote.
Joseph Eisenberg
(In the future, a better place to discuss changes to
Template:Map_Features:route is
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template_talk:Map_Features:route)
On 2/19/20, Pierre Béland <pierz...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Joseph, you deleted recently the link I added to the Map_features wiki page
> for snowmobile routes. It seems you dont like such schema and want to
> impose your views here.
>
> Snowmobiles routes are as common as bike or hiking trails in nordic
> countries. And the snowmobile wiki page describes it.
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:route%3Dsnowmobile
> Would you please revert your delete ?
>
>
>
> Pierre
>
>
> Le mercredi 19 février 2020 04 h 00 min 04 s UTC−5, Joseph Eisenberg
> <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> > I have occasionally moved such pages into the user's name space when I
> found them to (by content, if not by name) to be proposals for
> something, rather than a documentation of something already established.
>
> That is fine if the tag has not been used, and the page is written
> like a proposal suggestion. But if the user just wants to tag a dozen
> widgets as Tag:amenity=widget, it is fine to leave the Tag page in
> place, and then add information as needed like "See Also the more
> common tag landuse=widget which has a similar meaning", or "Some other
> mappers have used this tag in a different way, with this differnet
> meaning..." when necessary.
>
> I personally check every new Tag: and Key: page (in English,
> Indonesian or Spanish) every couple of weeks, and I suspect Mateusz
> Konieczny and some other experienced wiki users also check the
> Special:NewPages list frequently for the same reason. You can see that
> many of the Tag: and Talk pages on
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:NewPages have been edited
> by more than one user, even the ones that were made in the past month
> or two.
>
> This review effort is not yet happening for the Data Items, and since
> there were >500 created by bot over Christmas (Dec 25-26th), I think
> it's unlikely anyone has reviewed the recently created data items over
> the past few months. Most are content-free (key=value is the only
> property), but some probably need to be checked.
>
> - Joseph Eisenberg
>
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