Pourquoi dirais tu que Zazir et Anfedj ne sont que des « streams » et non pas des « rivers » ? Ce sont des grand oueds, et selon osm.wiki/Key:waterway « stream » est pour des « waterways » très serres.

Why would you say that Zazir and Anfeg are only “streams” and not “rivers”? They are large oueds, and according to osm.wiki/Key:waterway “stream” is for very narrow “waterways”.

Thank you for your very quick reply!

My understanding is that tags don’t need to be approved by the sommunity before they can be used. Before I started using geonames:id, I found hundreds of uses via taginfo – which seems to be one valid reason to use a tag: osm.wiki/Tags#Finding_your_tag

I’m aware that no content may be copied from GeoNames to OSM – and I think I took care to never do that. I only created the links to corresponding GeoNames entries, without transferring information from there to here. It seems to me similar to Wikidata – a lot of Wikidata-IDs are used in OSM, but copying information is not allowed: osm.wiki/Wikidata#Importing_data.
(The keys geonames:name and geonames:population probably are a copyright problem, but I think I never used them.)

By the way, I used the geonames:ids to connect OSM features to a Tamahaq gazetteer (https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_abr%C3%A9g%C3%A9_touareg-fran%C3%A7ais_de_noms_propres) for research purposes.

Die sind aus dem Liegenschaftsverzeichnis der Abteilung Immobilien der Uni Mainz: https://www.verwaltung.immobilien.uni-mainz.de/liegenschaftsverzeichnis/

Das Tag war schon vorher in Verwendung – es sah für mich so aus, als sei der Großteil der Nummern schon eingetragen gewesen. Ich habe sie deswegen damals aktualisiert und vervollständigt.

Pourquoi as-tu supprimé mon (ou mes) tags « geonames:id » ?
Why did you delete my tag (or tags) “geonames:id”?

Pourquoi as-tu supprimé mon (ou mes) tags « geonames:id » ?
Why did you delete my tag (or tags) “geonames:id”?

Pourquoi as-tu supprimé mon (ou mes) tags « geonames:id » ?
Why did you delete my tag (or tags) “geonames:id”?

Pourquoi as-tu supprimé mon (ou mes) tags « geonames:id » ?
Why did you delete my tag (or tags) “geonames:id”?

Pourquoi as-tu supprimé mon (ou mes) tags « geonames:id » ?
Why did you delete my tag (or tags) “geonames:id”?

Pourquoi as-tu supprimé mon (ou mes) tags « geonames:id » ?
Why did you delete my tag (or tags) “geonames:id”?

Pourquoi as-tu supprimé mon (ou mes) tags « geonames:id » ?
Why did you delete my tag (or tags) “geonames:id”?

Pourquoi as-tu supprimé mon (ou mes) tags « geonames:id » ?
Why did you delete my tag (or tags) “geonames:id”?

Pourquoi as-tu supprimé mon (ou mes) tags « geonames:id » ?
Why did you delete my tag (or tags) “geonames:id”?

Pourquoi as-tu supprimé mon (ou mes) tags « geonames:id » ?
Why did you delete my tag (or tags) “geonames:id”?

Pourquoi as-tu supprimé mon (ou mes) tags « geonames:id » ?
Why did you delete my tag (or tags) “geonames:id”?

Pourquoi as-tu supprimé mon (ou mes) tags « geonames:id » ?
Why did you delete my tag (or tags) “geonames:id”?

Pourquoi as-tu supprimé mon (ou mes) tags « geonames:id » ?
Why did you delete my tag (or tags) “geonames:id”?

Pourquoi as-tu supprimé mon (ou mes) tags « geonames:id » ?
Why did you delete my tag (or tags) “geonames:id”?

There appears to be a conflict between local/native conceptualisation and naming, and European/Western mapping and distiction between geographic entities. Of course, this is entangled with the connected databases (Wikidata, GeoNames …). For example, Wikipedia distinguishes the Hoggar Mountains and its central massif or range, the Atakor. According to a printed source prior to extensive European mapping (https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_abr%C3%A9g%C3%A9_touareg-fran%C3%A7ais_de_noms_propres/Lieux/H#L_%C4%82haggar_1), these two names are synonyms and refer to the same mountain range – the one I outlined in this edit. This edit doesn’t definitively clear up this mess.

Just to document the perhaps unusual arrangement: I think this video was shot exactly at this spot – or at a very comparable location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G1OD-G1rVM

I’m going to delete the ways tagged as “highway=track” in Niger, Ténéré de Tafasaset region, which are all offroad and don’t correspond to regularly used earth roads. Apparently these are GPS traces from a touristic expedition, including back and forth for sightseeing, converted to highways.