We talked about improving/changing the proposal process a few weeks ago
to bypass problems like
*people dislike voting chause of it's very limited nature
*it should be a more 'show your design and improve it together with
others' (as already said by others).
*make it media indipendend so
Am 13.10.2010 09:31, schrieb Matthias Meißer:
For this proposal IMHO the users who removed the proposal should be
notified and the author should be allowed to add his new feature to the
map features page. He fullfilled all requirements with his proposal
I contacted him and we're still in a
On 13-10-2010 9:43, Peter Körner wrote:
I contacted him and we're still in a very interesting discussion. His
opinion is, that the map-features should list the *most common used*
features and it's clear that with 500 uses, craft does not fall into
this category. So I can accept this tag not
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:43:36 +0200
Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote:
Am 13.10.2010 09:31, schrieb Matthias Meißer:
For this proposal IMHO the users who removed the proposal should be
notified and the author should be allowed to add his new feature to
the map features page. He
On 13/10/2010 09:30, Lennard wrote:
And how exactly would the craft tag become widely used if people have
to out on a limb to find it, exactly because it's not mentioned in the
Map Features? This will only hamper adoption.
Because they do a search of the wiki (and the mailing lists, and
The search box is also a lot faster than opening MapFeatures. Indeed
there'd be a case for abolishing MapFeatures (and just making
MapFeatures a category).
Richard
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:59 AM, SomeoneElse
li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote:
On 13/10/2010 09:30, Lennard wrote:
And how
The voting process may not be representative, but I believe it is the best
approach for defining a new tag that OSM currently has.
- at least there is some discussion and some documentation
- interested people have one place to look for new tags and join the
discussion
I think that just going
NopMap wrote:
Considering the reversal of the crafts entry, I consider the changes
of Jonobennett very questionable as with his next edit on
MapFeatures he completely removed several established main tags,
e.g. barrier which is used over 10 times in Germany alone.
I believe that was
Am 13.10.2010 13:54, schrieb NopMap:
Considering the reversal of the crafts entry
He did not reverse anything, the craft tag and all documentation is
still there, its just not listed as a common used tag (because it's not
common used right now).
Peter
what about removing highway=byway from the mapfeatures? It is used
less then 2000 times (which is very little for highway), and it is
UK-only, so IMHO no reason at all to be listed on the main features
page, could be moved to mapfeatures UK.
cheers,
Martin
Am 13.10.2010 16:04, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer:
what about removing highway=byway from the mapfeatures? It is used
less then 2000 times (which is very little for highway), and it is
UK-only, so IMHO no reason at all to be listed on the main features
page, could be moved to mapfeatures UK.
As a new tagger, I look to Map Features to see what tags were supported by
the community, not to see the most common tags. When I want to know the
most commonly used tags, I use some automated tool like taginfo or tagstat.
We are wrestling with a presentation issue and clearly a single wiki
On 13/10/2010 15:04, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
what about removing highway=byway from the mapfeatures? It is used
less then 2000 times (which is very little for highway), and it is
UK-only, so IMHO no reason at all to be listed on the main features
page, could be moved to mapfeatures UK.
Yes,
On Miércoles 13 Octubre 2010 11:59:22 SomeoneElse escribió:
On 13/10/2010 09:30, Lennard wrote:
And how exactly would the craft tag become widely used if people have
to out on a limb to find it, exactly because it's not mentioned in the
Map Features? This will only hamper adoption.
Craig Wallace wrote:
Yes, I agree with that, byway is really England and Wales
specific. And I think its generally deprecated there anyway
Yes, it is, especially since the Countryside Rights Of Way Act (CROW)
which significantly reclassified UK 'byways'. It is better to use a
universally
On 10/13/10 4:24 PM, Noel David Torres Taño wrote:
On Miércoles 13 Octubre 2010 20:22:49 Richard Welty escribió:
On 10/13/10 2:38 PM, Noel David Torres Taño wrote:
Maybe we need two separate pages, one with ALL approved features (which
may be called, by the (high)way, Approved Map Features)
Am 12. Oktober 2010 13:20 schrieb Matthias Meißer dig...@arcor.de:
I guess it is just an mistake and the situation is a little bit heated up by
some undocumented adds during the past months.
+1
There is no further doc needed beside a backlink to the vote (my suggestion)
usually a feature
We identified the problem on the german mailinglist:
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=9586
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Am 12. Oktober 2010 17:31 schrieb Matthias Meißer dig...@arcor.de:
We identified the problem on the german mailinglist:
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=9586
What about closing the forum and redirecting them to the mailing-list
archive? There is always complaints in the forum,
Am 12.10.2010 18:02, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer:
Am 12. Oktober 2010 17:31 schrieb Matthias Meißerdig...@arcor.de:
We identified the problem on the german mailinglist:
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=9586
I think there is a different problem, as the user who removed the item
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:06:44 +0200
Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote:
I can follow this argumentation but it makes it hard to have two sets
of rules to follow when creating tag-pages in the wiki.
There are few rules regarding the wiki.
I have not voted (because voting on the wiki is
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:06:44 +0200
Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote:
I can follow this argumentation but it makes it hard to have two sets
of rules to follow when creating tag-pages in the wiki.
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