On 6 January 2011 14:07, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > My guess is that this mailing list and talk@ reach a pretty small proportion > of users. Simply announcing "we're changing the tag! please tag differently > from now on!" is not remotely sufficient.
As I stated I was spit balling and this thread is to try and come up with something defined that would even remotely facilitate a tag change :) Also, while talk and tag are only a small number of contributors, they are the ones that would care most about such changes. > Similarly, doing a mass tag update which is going to break many existing > renderers and editors is simply not acceptable. Particularly when some of Well I didn't stipulate time frame between wiki changes and have no idea how much notice would be reasonable, would a month, 3 months, 6 months.... ? > Putting in place a serious process for tag migration will be difficult. I IMHO the current system of not being able to make alterations is worst. > suggest that a first step will be definition of an actual schema, with > version number. For example, define an actual list of several hundred tags, > with semantics, that correspond to "OSM core 1.0". Then, we could have votes > on changes to the schema, with advance notice given: "On November 1, 2011, > the main database will be updated to OSM core 1.1. Please have your editor > and renderer patches ready for this date." I don't agree with this, if you must use versioning just base it on the date rather than arbitrary numbering. > Not easy, and I don't think the OSM community is at that level of process > maturity yet. Unless we take steps to become more mature things will never change, I see this thread as a good start, where it will end up is another matter entirely. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
