Ulf Lamping wrote: > Liz schrieb: > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Nop wrote: > >> You cannot force anything but you can discourage putting presets for > >> disputed tags in editors (if it is frowned upon as some sort of indirect > >> vandalism and rolled back) and you can make an organised effort to bring > >> a newly established tagging scheme into all major editors and renderers > >> in a consistent way. Right now, it is purely chaotic. > > > > A simple example of this is amenity=doctors and amenity=doctor > > discussed a little earlier, where neither tag on the wiki is "accepted" > > but one has been taken up the editing software. > > There was a discussion on this list about doctors vs. doctor and the > conclusion was to use doctors, as this was more "natural" for native > speakers.
Yeah, and it confuses non-native speakers since it just looks like a plural, while most places they'd want to tag would only have one doctor... But anyway, that wasn't the discussion here :-) It's still putting a lot of power in the hands of the people in charge of the editors though if they can decide what tags to use. Ben _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
