On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 04:22, Johnparis <ok...@johnfreed.com> wrote: > What surprised me, however, was the general lack of interest. I had > thought this was a hot button issue, what with dozens of people registering > with OSM, the big kerfuffle about Crimea, etc. If only 33 people are > interested in this topic, it seems useless for me to continue to try to > refine the proposal. >
John, I'm sorry your proposal didn't make it, as it seemed like quite a reasonable idea. I've noticed this before & wonder about the numbers, or lack of them? Yes there's supposed to be ~750000 mappers on OSM. I don't know how many subscribe to the Tagging list (I'm sure someone can tell us?) but for Feb 2019 https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-February/author.html, there were posts by only 86 users, 20 of whom made only 1 post, while 37 made more than 5. Back to Nov 2018 when your proposal was raised https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2018-November/author.html & those numbers become 76 total posters, 19 with 1 post, & 32 at +5, so virtually identical. Of those 76 active on the list in Nov, 16 people commented on your proposal. When it came to the vote, 33 people voted, but only 2 of them had made comments on the list, but, strangely enough, only 2 people who commented then voted! Please note that I am in no way criticising people for not contributing to the list - I'm just pointing out that decisions that potentially effect 750000 mappers are seemingly being made by a mere handful of people, a lot of whom apparently aren't talking to anybody about the suggestion? I have no idea how we could improve things so there is more feedback - maybe remove the discussion page from the proposals, so all discussion has to happen on the tagging list? Thanks Graeme
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