On Saturday 11 September 2010 22:38:34 Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> I'm wondering what the difference is between the recent discussions
> about trees and waterways. Here's the way things look to me:
> *The wiki says something should be tagged a certain way: ("lone or
> significant tree" for natural=tree | "direction of the way should be
> downstream" for waterway=river, stream, and maybe other values)
> *People don't always see the definition on the wiki, and thus don't
> tag according to it, instead: (using natural=tree for any tree | not
> determining which way a waterway flows and drawing it in that
> direction)
> *Many features are now mapped differently from how the wiki says
> Yet the result is different: with trees, consensus seems to be to
> change the definition, while with waterways, we seem to be avoiding
> the problem.In the first case the usage (by many people) of the tag changed over time. In the second case there is only a problem according to one person. The other people are not ignoring the problem.They are just smarter. -- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
