Adjust coworking preset

[iandees]

Move the amenity=coworking_space preset to a more sensible office=coworking.

From the Department Of Not Everything's An Amenity.

[bhousel]

SGTM, thanks @iandees 👍

[abdeldjalil09]

office=coworking is undocumented tag

[pnorman]

office=coworking is undocumented tag

With 34 uses vs the 500ish for amenity=coworking_space

[talllguy]

This doesn't qualify as documentation?

[polarbearing]

@talllguy, not sure what your 'This' refers to. Anyway it is good practice to at least discuss tagging changes on the mailing list, which has started yesterday.

[tuxayo]

I agree that office=coworking is better and that not everything should be an amenity.

But why is it a good idea to make iD switch the preset from amenity to office when the wiki have not?

Discussion about changing the tag on the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:amenity%3Dcoworking_space

[bhousel]

But why is it a good idea to make iD switch the preset from amenity to office when the wiki have not?

The last time I looked, the wiki had been changed over and people were using the new tag, but I guess someone changed the wiki back?

To be honest, if a tag has only like 500 uses, I don't care too much. Anyone who knows overpass and JOSM and has an hour of free time can just update the tag to whatever they want, right? It seems like everyone agrees office=coworking is better, so.. why not just change it?

[polarbearing]

The last time I looked, the wiki had been changed over and people were using the new tag, but I guess someone changed the wiki back?

Not sure when you looked. However when this issue started here, somebody had moved the wiki page form amenity= to office= which is against the policy that the wiki documents how a tag is used, not vice versa. Thus the move was reverted after discussion on the tagging list, and the office page currently redirects to the amenity. Please note that there might be coworking spaces currently tagged that are not offices. Of course the page office=coworking can be filled with documentation of this tag.

To be honest, if a tag has only like 500 uses, I don't care too much. Anyone who knows overpass and JOSM and has an hour of free time can just update the tag to whatever they want, right? It seems like everyone agrees office=coworking is better, so.. why not just change it?

You are proposing an Automated Edit which is only allowed in special cases, read here why. Migrating a tag is not such a case, thus please don't encourage a mechanical edit here. As said above, there might be places that are not offices, thus each place needs to be reviewed with local knowledge.