Sounds good to me. We can leave the thread open a few more days to see if anyone cares that much about `covered=booth`. I think 5 days is plenty.
If nobody is using it, I’ll open an issue on https://github.com/osmlab/osm-tagging <https://github.com/osmlab/osm-tagging> on or around June 23 to start the cleanup.. As always, looking for volunteers to do the actual work of replacing the tags and cleaning up the wiki. Thanks, Bryan > On Jun 18, 2018, at 4:21 PM, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 9:00 PM, Bryan Housel <bhou...@gmail.com > <mailto:bhou...@gmail.com>> wrote: > from https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/5088 > <https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/5088> > > Proposal: > I’d like to drop `covered=booth` as a suggested tag, as it’s superfluous. If > the telephone feature has `booth=yes` or `booth=K6` you know it’s a booth. > Then we’re not repurposing the `covered=*` for a thing that it doesn’t > normally do in other situations and isn’t documented on the main `covered` > page. > > The only possible problem with this is that many public phones in the US have > an acoustic hood which shields > the phone from rain and may provide a degree of rain protection to the user. > In which case the acoustic hood > provides cover, just no as much as a booth. > > Then again, I've never seen an outdoor public phone that isn't in a booth > also lack an acoustic hood. So should > mappers and consumers assume a hood is present unless booth is specified? > Except I can conceive of a phone > in a building passage having neither a booth nor a hood (seems unlikely, but > possible). > > Otherwise, I have no problems with the change. By all means drop an > inappropriate, repurposed tag for something > better. Once we're sure we're not going to hit further problems because we > didn't think of all use cases. > > If we do go down this route, then I think an automated edit is justified > which drops covered=booth where booth=* is > specified and replaces covered=booth with booth=yes where booth isn't > specified. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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