Hi, On 15.01.20 14:03, Christoph Hormann wrote: > This is a move that has been a long time coming as part of a piecemeal > effort by some to establish a technocratic rule on the OSM wiki by > moving central content out of the control of the mappers into the > domain of data items with higher hurdles of participation due to poor > ergonomics (the whole concept of requiring human editors to deal with > numerical IDs for features that already have a unique identifier in OSM > by design never ceases to amaze me) and with an established ability of > the technocrats to control the crowd sourced editing work with bots.
I agree with this sentiment whole-heartedly and have commented the wiki discussion accordingly. > The real discussion that needs to be done is how we can get to a better > documentation of the actual use of tags by humans for humans. We have > had some useful discussion on this at SotM last year and in a follow-up > here: Over the years, a couple of people have time and time again suggested that we get down and make a nice, curated, text-based catalogue of tags maintained by a team, potentially on a git-like system where pull requests can be submitted by everyone, but maintainers have to approve them. I was always on the fence about this, because it would install a maintainer team with more powers than the average user. But in the face of a wiki that is more and more moving into a direction where you need to have a degree in Wikidata to even participate, and where anything you contribute will be mowed over three times by this bot and that bot in order to fit into some structure that someone else has devised with practically zero community oversight, I think I'll prefer the git-based human-readable "tag atlas". Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
