On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> @Colin - I see it now in Wiktionary, but since it is not in the OSM Wiki >> how would renderers show or use that information? I guess my point is that >> the relation manager and tools are difficult to master and forcing their >> use on the general mapping community would be a mistake. Even if >> deprecating the ref tag was deemed okay by our little group, the general >> user community will resist the change and rightly so IMO >> > > You're blaming the community for a software issue here, and that's a > little unfair to the community. If iD or potlatch or whatever are that > broken, then fucking fix iD and Potlatch. There's zero reason relations > should be harder to use than nodes and ways. If it is, then the software > is Doing It Wrong. > Sorry for going all Linus Torvalds there, but seriously, the tools shouldn't be a barrier to moving things to a more consistent level of maintainability.
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