[available_tags] <some available values missing for a tag>

[xiaofanliang]

Hi osmdata team,

This is not a very urgent request but I want to put it out for thoughts. I am pulling OSM data globally to run analyses on a set of amenities. I notice that some values available in the OSM dataset are missing when I run available_tags('amenity'). I only tested one tag and I assume this is why the line add_osm_features("amenity"=EXAMPLE BELOW) does not return any data.

More specifically, for amenity tag, these are some of the missing values: canteen, lavoir, coworking_space, social_club, marae, stage, concert_hall, festival_grounds, events_centre, dojo, karaoke_box, hookah_lounge, clubhouse. They can be found in TagInfo: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/amenity#values and have more than 1000 instances around the world.

I also noticed that these values are missing from the source for the available_tags() function: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_features.

I am not sure what is the best way to approach this. Are these values missed because they have low counts?? If so, simply excluding them may be unfair to some regions. For example, marae is a very specific (and important) type of religious institution for New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Not being able to pull and map them seems unfair to the natives.