On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 13:23, Sergio Manzi <s...@smz.it> wrote: > "*ad hoc*" (for this) signifies a solution designed for a specific > problem or task, non-generalizable, and not intended to be able to be > adapted to other purposes. > > "*extempore*" (or more correctly "*ex tempore*", "from the time") means > something done without preparation or forethought, as if prompted by the > spirit of the moment. > > "*impromptu*", improvisation, has more or less the same meaning as "*ex > tempore*". > > I don't see how how the above could be seen as substitutes for "in use" or > any other OSM tags status... > Were you here when we discussed landuse=clearing that somebody found used (presumably by a HOT mapper)? Used only a handful of times. It had not been proposed and accepted, or proposed and rejected. It was not widely used. It was something that somebody had made up on the spot from lack of knowledge about the correct way to deal with it. The wiki should probably document and deprecate it, for the benefit of anyone who finds it on taginfo and would otherwise assume it to be acceptable.
But there are other de novo tags which don't have existing alternatives, haven't been through a proposal process and are not widely used. "In use" implies fairly wide usage. Otherwise anyone can invent a tag (however silly) use it once and document it in the wiki as "in use." I doubt that is a good way to go. Nor is leaving such things undocumented else we're likely to end up with dozens of alternative tags for the same thing. -- Paul
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