Re: [Tagging] Why should we avoid overusage of amenity=* tag?

[Valor Naram]

To your 4.: We need to get the developers to change their presets beforehand.

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Subject: Re: [Tagging] Why should we avoid overusage of amenity=* tag?
From: Paul Allen
To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools"
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 10:16, Valor Naram <valin...@gmx.net> wrote:

Deprecating "amenity" would hurt because it's a very important key. But I have some suggestions:

There are cases where amenity is an appropriate tag.  Such as for amenities.

1. Keeping the "amenity" wiki page intact.
2. Creating/extending pages for new keys e.g. Key:education
3. Suggesting "education=*" instead of "amenity=education" on the "amenity" wiki page.

3.5 Persuading developers of editors to prefer education=* to amenity=* when mappers

select "school," "university," etc.  Many mappers rely on editor presets and will only over-ride

what those presets offer if they disagree with the tags the editor gives them.

4. A transition period for changing the database and to aware other mappers of it.

4 is feasible ONLY if the new education=* offers are 1-for-1 correspondence with

amenity=* for educational facilities.  That is amenity=school can be directly and

unambiguously replaced with education=* (possibly with sub-tags).  There can be

no "it depends" situations if a bulk edit is to take place.  Otherwise it would have to be

done on a case-by-case basis.

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Paul

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