2010/9/16 John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>: > 2010/9/17 Matthias Meißer <dig...@arcor.de>: >> If we 'allow' it to one user, we have to allow it everybody. How should this >> anarchy work fine? How should it guide newbies to point out what are the >> important and approved tags (for now)? > > At present I can see 3 potential ways: > > 1) simply go by how much a tag is actually used and some how document > tags, rather than documenting on a wiki. The down side is this may > potentially lead to an edit war if there is 2 or more opposing views > as each side 'updates' the database to fit their view.
IMHO most of the times the disputes are not how a tag should be called, but what is it's actual meaning and what is the appropriate structure for the world to be expressed in tags. > 2) some kind of committee to vet ideas, they may not necessarily have > the last say, but at present some people think discussion should only > occur on the mailing list, on the wiki on the forum and so these > disparate groups aren't talking to each other on a common > communication platform. are you active in the forum as well? How many hours has your day? > 3) stop trying to use names for keys and values and use numbers, this > avoids hangups over language at the very least. really? Because every tag will be described differently in different languages? Or are you going to define the numbers by other numbers? This will also make manual (text) editing almost impossible. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
