Re: [Tagging] Tag:bicycle accident=true

2011-08-22 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/8/23 Colin Smale : > My point is that all these tags > which are *now* established and widely in use, probably got that way without > discussion and documentation *in advance* but were simply taken into use by > the early contributors and documented afterwards. +1, I also guess that in the e

Re: [Tagging] Tag:bicycle accident=true

2011-08-22 Thread Colin Smale
On 22/08/2011 18:50, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2011/8/17 Colin Smale: On 17/08/2011 12:19, Sander Deryckere wrote: It has a bad discription, it's a tag for a temporary feature (at least how I interpret it) and it didn't go via the voting process. So I would just delete it and point the write

Re: [Tagging] Tag:bicycle accident=true

2011-08-22 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/8/17 Colin Smale : > On 17/08/2011 12:19, Sander Deryckere wrote: >> It has a bad discription, it's a tag for a temporary feature  (at least >> how I interpret it) and it didn't go via the voting process. >> >> So I would just delete it and point the writer to the voting process. >> > Since wh

Re: [Tagging] Tag:bicycle accident=true

2011-08-22 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
> point the writer to the voting process. I agree that it would be nice to stick closer to the proposal procedure when defining new tags in the wiki. Recently there is lots of pages popping up which try to establish alternative tagging schemes to already in use schemes (I guess that sometimes th

Re: [Tagging] Tag:bicycle accident=true

2011-08-17 Thread SomeoneElse
It's probably worth trying to include the original author of the page in any discussion. There's no wiki user page or talk page, but my guess is that it's this guy: http://bryankaraffa.com/contact/ Cheers, Andy ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@opens

Re: [Tagging] Tag:bicycle accident=true

2011-08-17 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Colin Smale wrote: > The whole basis of OSM is "openness" - you can > use whatever tags you like. Discussion and voting is really required only if > you expect other consumers of the data to do something with your data I don't want to enter in such discussion. We

Re: [Tagging] Tag:bicycle accident=true

2011-08-17 Thread Colin Smale
On 17/08/2011 12:19, Sander Deryckere wrote: It has a bad discription, it's a tag for a temporary feature (at least how I interpret it) and it didn't go via the voting process. So I would just delete it and point the writer to the voting process. Since when is the voting process mandatory?

Re: [Tagging] Tag:bicycle accident=true

2011-08-17 Thread Sander Deryckere
It has a bad discription, it's a tag for a temporary feature (at least how I interpret it) and it didn't go via the voting process. So I would just delete it and point the writer to the voting process. Op 17 aug. 2011 11:39 schreef "Pieren" het volgende: > Someone added last night a unique contr

[Tagging] Tag:bicycle accident=true

2011-08-17 Thread Pieren
Someone added last night a unique contribution in the wiki about a new tag: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:bicycle_accident%3Dtrue If we believe taginfo stats, this key has not been used until now. The wiki page is also orphan. Is it a good idea to keep such tag in the wiki ? Should we de