Proposal talk:Top-level information tag

Why keep tourism=information?

I welcome this proposal to start a transition to information=* as a main tag, but I think it would be more straightforward to deprecate tourism=information rather than keep it as a fallback for potentially “forgotten” information types. A generic information feature could be tagged as information=yes. —-Dieterdreist (talk) 07:15, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

I agree with this and welcome this proposal. However, I think the wiki discussion fell out of fashion and one gets more feedback on the forum.

Retagging

There are nearly 30k information=office. What is the intended procedure to retag them to tourism=office? --Hufkratzer (talk) 19:49, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

"tourism=office replaces tourism=information + information=office" - it may be better to keep this one, the same for =visitor_centre. Such major deprecation will bring many protests and break many data consumers Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 04:00, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Lol I added this part after someone on slack had the opposite take, that there's not much advantage in redefining without improving. By deprecating just two tags then `tourism` is well-defined as a facility (a POI you would expect to see marked on a map) while `information` is well-defined as a piece of physical infrastructure. This isn't about aesthetics, it's about making it easy for data consumers to handle OSM data by removing special cases. The change would only affect about 30,000 features, which may have been a lot ten years ago but it's not very many by modern OSM standards. Quincylvania (talk) 14:54, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Tagging proposals don't have an enforcement mechanism. Any large-scale retagging would need to go through the automated edit review process. The advantage of getting a tagging proposal approved is that the documentation can be updated and that apps and local mappers can start using the new tagging as desired. Quincylvania (talk) 14:54, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Similar

As I understand, dropping man_made=advertising and changing advertising=* to primary tag was a similar good change Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 04:01, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Where and how was man_made=advertising dropped? It is still used and growing in numbers. --Hufkratzer (talk) 12:33, 2 December 2024 (UTC)