At the moment there exist: man_made=measurement_station man_made=monitoring_station Both for mapping the same kind of objects. After three years of coexisting there should be finally a cleanup
A little about the history of the tags: The proposal for man_made=measurement_station was created on 2nd April 2010.¹ "measurement_station" was created by German user grossing and me pushing him a little. Since in German language a lot of stuff regarding weather gets "gemessen" so "measured" sounded the best pick. The tag page man_made=monitoring_station was created on 20th May 2010, ² its evolution is explained on its talk page. Question one: What do you think is the better matching name for the tag - monitoring_station or measurement_station? Question two: After consenting to one tag are there any voices against an automatic unifying of the tagging, that is, changing all measurement_station to monitoring_station or vice versa? Momentarily usage: measurement_station: 1 766 times monitoring_station: 2 741 times (where 1773 objects seem to come from various imports.) Either way I would for things monitored/measured stick with the tags from monitoring_station. It is better to list them each with a single key/value-pair instead of a semicolon separated row. monitoring:weather=yes monitoring:water_quality=yes vs monitoring=water_quality;weather But I would not define any settings as default like is done here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dmonitoring_station#Additional_Tags Your opinions? Regards Thomas ¹ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features/measurement_station&action=history ² http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:man_made%3Dmonitoring_station&action=history _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
