Key:lon
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Lon is a synonym of Longitude, which is the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England. 
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Each node in the OSM database already has information about its longitude and latitude. We do not add this information in tags. For example: https://osm.org/api/0.6/node/65449903 |
Lon is a synonym of Longitude, which is the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes or decimal degrees.
Looking at the graph of the use of this key, it can be deduced that it comes from imports and its use is not increasing.
longitude=* is also used but less frequently.