John Smith wrote: > On 29 July 2010 15:13, Tobias Knerr <o...@tobias-knerr.de> wrote: >> 5-10k mappers doesn't work, but skipping discussion and inventing tags > > Don't confuse discussion with voting, voting is flawed and many things > are still discussed on the tagging list before being documented on the > wiki.
Wiki voting can be a means to document that the discussion actually generated consensus. After a successful discussion, it's merely a formality, but it demonstrates the consensus to those who haven't participated in the discussions preceding it. I agree, however, that the discussion itself is the important part. >> based on the experiences of a single mapper who encounters a feature for >> the first time doesn't produce quality results either. > > As opposed to people making up different tags as they go along > regardless of what others have done? That usually only happens if people don't know what others have done. Looking at existing solutions first, but intentionally proposing an alternative way of doing something that would replace or augment the existing solution is a different issue - and has to be an option regardless of the process (or lack thereof) for defining tagging. Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
