I thought the proposal was too complicated. This made it difficult to review, so I was reluctant to vite. I believe a simpler, more approachabke proposal would have a higher chance of success.
I’d recommend reading all of the objections and trying again with a much simpler version. On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 8:34 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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