Who is to decide? Mvg Peter Elderson
> Op 2 feb. 2019 om 15:38 heeft EthnicFood IsGreat > <ethnicfoodisgr...@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven: > > >> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 14:22:20 +0100 >> From: Hufkratzer <hufkrat...@gmail.com> >> To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" >> <tagging@openstreetmap.org> >> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Drain vs ditch >> >> >> If we were discussing a proposal I would agree, but replacing >> waterway=drain by waterway=ditch + usage=drainage or sth. like that is >> not such an easy task. We already have 800k drains. I assume it >> requires a proposal with volting to deprecate drain, adaption of the >> presets, perhaps a mass edit. Who will do all this? Is the advantage of >> using waterway=ditch + usage=drainage instead of waterway=drain so >> immense that it is worth the effort? >> >> [...] > > > This goes to the very core of the tagging policy of OSM. The current state > of OSM tags is a screwed up mess. Because we are "prohibited" from going > back in time and correcting bad tagging decisions that were made in the past, > we are stuck with trying to shoehorn new tag definitions into a chaotic, > disorganized system. The way I see it, if we were allowed to conduct mass > edits to revise poorly-planned tagging choices, we would save ourselves a lot > of trouble in the long run. It would be painful at first, adjusting to the > changes, but I think it would be worth it. Don't we all agree that if we > were starting all over from scratch, we would give a lot more thought to > tagging? > > Mark > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
