Wetland=peat_bog vs. wetland=bog

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I have seen this new wetland=peat_bog appear in the taggning and I have asked the users why this should be better than wetland=bog

I did not have any answers from the users. But what I found my self is, the peat_bog is availble in the ID-editor.

There are about 500 taged objects with this value but what would be the difference to use wetland=bog ?

It seems to me that the ID-editor just use the tag-info that has been used and serve these values for the user who can just choose it from the list.

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there are also other apparently more specific bog types:

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/wetland=string_bog#overview

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/wetland=palsa_bog#overview

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/wetland=raised_bog#overview

and minor use of bog as a key:

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/bog#values