On 08-Dec-17 03:34 AM, Marc Zoutendijk wrote:
From: Tom Pfeifer <t.pfei...@computer.org <mailto:t.pfei...@computer.org>>
On 05.12.2017 20:40, Marc Zoutendijk wrote:> Martin, did you see the
pictures I have added to the
wiki? [1]
Nice pictures, but they belong onto the discussion page, as it is
_not_ an 'alternative' use, it is
a use _against_ the original definition.
They have been discussed:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2017-January/030851.html
My view (and not mine only, read the discussion) is that a wiki should
describe how a tag _is_used_ and not how it should be used.
Definition drift.
This would see the colour 'purple' redefined as 'blue'.
I am against it.
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My assumptions and a story of drift (fictional .. at least that is the
intent):
A problem with "village_green" is that was not well defined.
Everyone initially concerned knew what it is and so assumed that the
words "village green" would convey enough to be clear, after all they
knew what it meant.
People elsewhere took the meaning to mean something else locally and
used it.
These new uses outnumbered the old uses.
The new users change the wiki to incorporate their use - this is the
numerically dominate use so it must be right.
And so the new definition is not what was meant for the old use, so the
old features are now incorrectly tagged.
Thus OSM has a mess to sort out.
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