Proposal:Planted date unification
Planted date unification | |
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Proposal status: | Draft (under way) |
Proposed by: | UsefulRabbit |
Draft started: | 2024-07-13 |
Proposal
Establish that start_date=*
is the primary way of tagging the date when vegetation was planted in its current location (or otherwise came into existence).
Deprecate the following tags, encouraging usage of start_date=*
instead as a drop-in replacement:
planted_date=*
planted=*
date_planted=*
date:planted=*
year_planted=*
plant_year=*
Deprecate the planted:age=*
tag, encouraging concrete years/months/days with start_date=*
, and the tree's size with age=*
.
Further consensus is needed on age=*
.
Rationale
Currently, we use a variety of tags to indicate when a plant was planted. This is undesirable for people who want to query or display that information in a unified manner.
start_date=*
is the most-used tag for indicating planted dates on OSM (427,464 at the time of writing) and has applications outside of mapping plants, so I selected it to be the primary tag.
Statistics for tags that will be deprecated are linked below.
Tag | Count |
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planted_date=*
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planted=*
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year_planted=*
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date:planted=*
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date_planted=*
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plant_year=*
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plant:age=*
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Tagging
Use the established conventions used with start_date=*
.
Examples
Here are a handful of examples correctly using start_date=*
for planted dates:
- node 11036039567 (named significant historical tree)
- node 9543825822 (named significant local tree)
- node 3707416388 (unnamed ordinary tree)
Rendering
Not necessarily relevant.
Features/Pages affected
- Add a section to
start_date=*
explaining the new convention. - Mark
planted_date=*
as deprecated. - Create the following pages as redirects to one of the above pages. Redirect them to a section explaining the deprecation:
planted=*
date:planted=*
planted_date=*
year_planted=*
plant_date=*
plant:age=*
- This one is a bit special, considering the additional existence ofage=*
.
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Comments
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