On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 21:50, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [...] > > This is a scenario in which, as far as I can tell, Mary and Mike have > done everything right, but the community has failed them. Which of > these likely outcomes is the 'least worst'? > > We have a formal rule of "any tags you like", but apparently we're > converging on a _de facto_ rule of "ask permission before applying any > tag unless you see that it was the subject of a previously approved > proposal." Is that the rule we want?
Thanks for your valuable thoughts, Kevin! (Don't you want to share them on the wiki in order to help new users to better understand OSM?) I have to admit that the proposal process and the tagging discussions are sometimes frustrating, and it's certainly not my intent to prevent others from developing and using new tags. However, it is my impression that the wiki already is quite confusing and people often don't read it. Because tags are also often not self-explanatory, this unfortunately results in tags loosing its meaning. I'm worrying that this gets worse. Perhaps it would help though, if the status on the wiki page were more clear and prominent – maybe a different page colour and a status of 'informal' instead of 'in use' for those non-standard tags. Regards Markus _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
