Talk:Tag:golf=cartpath

I think this page should be a proposal: Proposed_features/Tag:golf=cartpath.

The tag has not been documented before, but has been used a number of times. It would best to discuss this on the proposal page and on the Tagging mailing list. --Jeisenbe (talk) 02:43, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

redirecting pages to a proposal

Reply to "I thought it was recommend to propose and discuss new features, rather than creating a full wiki page without discussion." from https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3734 (here as it would be offtopic there)

This is a tricky problem - some people advocate mandatory proposal process, with methods that discourage many people from editing wiki. For example moving created pages to proposal namespace, adding comments/warning "it never had proposal" etc.

In case of https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:golf%3Dcartpath it was [briefly redirected](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:golf%3Dcartpath&action=history) to a proposal page. Personally I think that doing that for tags that are widely used it is a poor idea. It is just going to irritate people not interested in going through a proposal process and for fans of voting - it is anyway just closing barn after the horses has bolted. No matter whatever it is a good idea or not it should be documented, maybe with description of conflicting views of whatever this tag is useful.

In my case I generally try to discuss things when I propose new tags or make changes to documentation. But often I start from making Wiki edit and ask whatever something is wrong with the page. I often just document existing tags, especially established ones - see for example https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:teryt:terc

Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 11:48, 4 May 2019 (UTC)