Re: [Tagging] Blatant tagging for the renderer: bridges & abandoned railways

2015-03-09 16:18 GMT+00:00 ael : >> The edits you did can be described as (semi-)vandalism. > > That sort of comment is unworthy of OSM. I did the surveys. Very > carefully. I tagged corectly as far as I knew at the time. >[...] > Your sort of comment to someone who has contributed years of sol

Re: [Tagging] Buildings blocks

2015-03-11 12:06 GMT+00:00 Martin Koppenhoefer : > > 2015-03-11 12:56 GMT+01:00 Jean-Marc Liotier : >> >> As you can see, each block is subdivided into land plots - each with a >> courtyard and several buildings that usually all belong to an extended >> family. Those land plots have a strong signif

Re: [Tagging] Accepted or rejected?

Hi, No, I think it means what it says. Or at least, I think we have treated it that way for a long while. When there is very low interest (i.e. very few votes) - which is pretty common - then even one dissenting vote is enough to make us step back and think again, whereas if there are enough vote

Re: [Tagging] Revisiting proposal/voting scheme

2015-03-18 21:58 GMT+00:00 David Bannon : > On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 21:40 +0100, Kotya Karapetyan wrote: > >> . would it make sense to change the current proposal/voting >> mechanism like follows? > >> - When the discussion calms down (which can even be defined >> mathematically if needed),

Re: [Tagging] Revisiting proposal/voting scheme

2015-03-18 23:56 GMT+00:00 David Bannon : > Kotya, in no way was I criticising the leadership you have shown in this > matter ! > > Its just that I preferred Dan's approach. Key IMHO is - > > * A proposal gets to wiki in much the same manner as now. > > * Once on the wiki, instead of a formal vote

Re: [Tagging] List v Forum - was Accepted or rejected?

I use Stack Exchange a lot and it's great, very well designed for its purpose. BUT Stack Exchange is not designed for community decision making. There are tools/forums that are actually designed for that purpose. Also I don't think Stack Exchange themselves would want to host an OSM tagging area,

Re: [Tagging] List v Forum - was Accepted or rejected?

2015-03-19 22:42 GMT+00:00 Kotya Karapetyan : > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Dan S wrote: >> >> I use Stack Exchange a lot and it's great, very well designed for its >> purpose. BUT Stack Exchange is not designed for community decision >> making. There ar

Re: [Tagging] List v Forum - was Accepted or rejected?

2015-03-20 11:50 GMT+00:00 althio : > >> >> I use Stack Exchange a lot and it's great, very well designed for its >> >> purpose. BUT Stack Exchange is not designed for community decision >> >> making. There are tools/forums that are actually designed for that >> >> purpose. > >> > 1) Can you point

Re: [Tagging] Loomio evaluation

It's interesting. I hadn't realised it's open-source too, so osm could run its own version of it if we wanted to. Dan 2015-03-20 22:38 GMT+00:00 Kotya Karapetyan : > Dear all, > > In an attempt to find a better tool for our proposal discussions, Loomio has > been mentioned. At the very first glan

Re: [Tagging] Loomio evaluation

Swarthout : > I'll second the notion that we need something better than the current > system. It is an anachronism! > > My first look at Loomio was good, I was impressed, but my immediate thought > was, it'll never get accepted into OSM > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:57 AM

Re: [Tagging] Loomio evaluation

I don't know if I need to say this, but Ralph, Andre, please could you send report your problems to the loomio people? You do that here: https://github.com/loomio/loomio/issues Dan 2015-03-23 16:42 GMT+00:00 AYTOUN RALPH : > Well, I guess I am also out of this. Needs me to log in to make a commen

Re: [Tagging] Loomio evaluation

Yes they can. Probably best to try it out - sorry that you're stuck outside of it at the moment! 2015-03-23 18:36 GMT+00:00 AYTOUN RALPH : > The next question is > > The results of the graph are based on the response of the person when they > post their comment. This affects the result of the

Re: [Tagging] [OT] Licensing of information from websites

2015-03-31 12:51 GMT+01:00 Andrew Guertin : >> I wonder that nobody so far did spell out a warning about adding >> information from websites. The simple key website=* is ok, but every >> information like address, prizes and all the amenities is most of the >> time not usable due to license problems

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Rename wiki status "Approved" to "Published"

2015-04-03 10:22 GMT+01:00 Bryce Nesbitt : > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:21 PM, François Lacombe > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> +1 with Bryce and "published" instead of "approved" >> +1 with Ole regarding power features >> >> Cheers >> François > > > So let's see if we can make it happen. The questi

Re: [Tagging] Proposal: Rename wiki status "Approved" to "Published"

2015-04-05 7:16 GMT+01:00 Bryce Nesbitt : > On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 5/04/2015 8:12 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: >> >> This mailing list community veers toward nit picking and bike shedding, >> and tends to block rather than guide forward change. It

Re: [Tagging] How to map an household goods store?

I've been wondering about this one occasionally. http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/shop=household - 226 examples, no wiki page http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/shop=houseware - 156 examples, wiki page (with almost nothing in it) http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/shop=housewares - 53 e

Re: [Tagging] Proposal for new tag: landuse=plot

2013/9/18 John F. Eldredge : > Colin Smale wrote: >> >> What is the essential difference between plot and lot in an OSM context? >> Dictionaries often seem to treat them as synonyms when applying to a "patch >> of land". But I'm a Brit... What's the US/AUS/CDN/NZ/etc view on this? >> >> Colin >> >

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