2015-04-07 14:07 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>:
> 2015-04-07 13:50 GMT+02:00 Martin Vonwald <imagic....@gmail.com>: > >> If one wants to avoid conflicts, one will always use different tags than >> tags that are already in use. >> > +-0, typically mappers want to use the same tags that other users also use > to make usage of the map data easier (i.e. they want their stuff rendered, > etc.). Of course everyone could invent new tags for everything everytime > they map, and conflicts could be very much avoided (especially with a > common tagging scheme and namespaces, e.g. > martin_koppenhoefer:highway=motorway, martin_vonwald:highway=motorway, > etc.). Not what you wanted to say? Can you expand in which cases one should > use a different tag than those already in use? > I was refering to "different idea of the defintion". If someone has a different idea about what a tag should mean, one will either * be ignorant and use the tag in a (completely) different way * be cooperative and use a different tag. The type of documentation will not influence this behaviour. > A proposal should be the documentation of new tags that are actually > used(!). > > proposals sometimes also extend or restrict the usage of tags that aren't > "new". > But the extended usage is "new". > How do we resolve cases of different people using the same tag for > different things? How do we discover these cases? > Exactly in the same way as we do it now. Nothing changes. We only use a different name for our documentation and its state. And we do not tell people that this is "good", because three-and-a-half people made some green ticks somewhere, and this is "bad", because my brother and his son hate this tag personally and therefore made some red ticks somewhere else. > When should you write a proposal for a new tag (i.e. how much "use" should > a tag have before you can document it?). > I would write a short documentation right at the beginning and expand/adjust it continuously while increasing the discussion and usage of the tag. Actually that's the way I wrote all my proposals up to now and will continue to do it that way. Unless - of course - someone comes up with a better idea of introducing new tags.
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