On 6 May 2015 at 17:41, moltonel 3x Combo <molto...@gmail.com> wrote: > It'd only be reasonable if those people were contacted. Discussions on > [tagging] or [talk] or the wiki are *not* a good way to contact > mappers for democratic opinion-gathering purposes. OSM doesn't have a > policy that interested contributors have to participate on this or > that dicussion medium. I've joined [tagging] very late in my OSM life > (and can't afford the time to read it all), but I've always been very > interested in any change to the data I've contributed.
Unfortunately, contacting mappers individually has a very low response rate. For my bookmaker changes, I contacted 20 mappers individually through the OSM messaging system. All of them were frequent mappers (17 of them had more than 1000 changesets). I only received a response from three of them. This was to ask me help with retagging, but I'd guess asking them for their opinion would give a similar low response rate. With less frequent mappers, I'd expect the response rate to be even lower. So asking every single mapper of a certain tag for their opinion is not really an option, I think. -- Matthijs _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
