On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 13:24, Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Or am I missing your point totally? > There's a hierarchy of tag acceptability based upon how much forethought has gone into it. Proposed and approved. Proposed and rejected. Proposed and lapsed. Widely used. Used once or twice. Used once by somebody who didn't know there was already an approved tag. Ideally we document as many of those as possible and indicate how acceptable they are with the status. My point was that "proposed" is not the same as "informal." Proposing a tag is part of a formal discussion process that may lead to acceptance or rejection. Informal is me wanting to tag some type of object, being unable to find a suitable tag (or being too lazy to look), and just making it up ad hoc. As we had with landuse=clearing a while ago. Which should probably be documented as deprecated along with the correct way to do it (multipolygon with an inner area, maybe without any other tag if you're unsure what is there other than not-outer). Informal or ad hoc would be somebody made up a tag for which there isn't already a better alternative and it isn't yet in widespread use. On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 8:03 PM Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 12:12, Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> I like the idea of the "informal" category but isn't that more or less >>> the same as "proposed"? >>> >> >> The proposal process is formal. >> >
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