On Jan 16, 2020, at 2:37 PM, John Whelan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there somewhere that offers guidelines on how to add additional tags? and 
> which tags are more interesting and which should be avoided?   For example 
> country=Canada is probably superfluous.

As it hasn't been touched in five months, I'm not sure how applicable the wiki

https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Canada/Building_Canada_2020#The_data_that_could_be_mapped

is, relevant to how "this" is being done today.  This effort's wikis and 
approaches have changed — and grown!— since that document was drafted.

But, that section does indicate that OSM's "key building=* currently has over 
60 documented values" and the "man_made=* key now has over 50 documented 
values."  I do recall when I selected eight or ten of the values noted there 
that I was largely making educated guesses.  But now, as is true of wiki, 
especially during a project that is still sort of "wet cement being mixed" 
(nothing wrong with that, it has to happen, it happens well now) please feel 
free to modify these values as you see fit.  It was meant to be a starting 
point, may you continue with it as well as possible.  (Or not).

SteveA
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