Yesterday at our International Women's Day Mapathon in Bellingham, WA, one of the participants wanted to add a pier on Bellingham's waterfront. (Bellingham is located on Puget Sound) She created a polygon to define the pier and tagged it man_man=dock in iD. Perfectly reasonable to a US english speaker, but not according to the wiki. It should have been tagged a pier. A quick overpass [1] check shows about 300 objects tagged as man_made=dock in the US. All but one look incorrect. It seems to me that iD needs some sort of heads up to the user. Either default dock to man_made=pier or change the search to prompt the user to pick the correct tag.
Should it be requested as an enhancement to iD? Clifford [1] http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/eTo -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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