[Tagging] Feature proposal - Voting - Power generation refinement

2013-05-27 Thread François Lacombe
Hi, I'm pleased to announce the voting of power generation refinement proposal. It takes place until June 10. Please use the dedicated wiki page to place your vote. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Power_generation_refinement Many thanks in advance to take a little time to p

Re: [Tagging] Recreation_ground (landuse vs leisure)

2013-05-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05/27/2013 03:38 PM, Tobias Knerr wrote: For syntactic changes such as typo fixes, I do not consider it necessary to gather on-the-ground evidence, because you are not changing what the data says about the situation on the ground (the semantics). Instead, your responsibility is to check t

Re: [Tagging] Recreation_ground (landuse vs leisure)

2013-05-27 Thread Rovastar
I was going to enter a long rambling rant about this subject against the anti-"mechanical edits" gang (part of the anti-import and anti-aerial imagery groups)it seems like some of them just like bad data and no standards. But a simple +1 to Tobias' comments. Crazy guidelines in the Mechanical

Re: [Tagging] Recreation_ground (landuse vs leisure)

2013-05-27 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 27.05.2013 10:01, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Most "cleaners" become greedy with time. They start fixing a few typos > in their local area and before too long they make overpass queries and > fix "typos" world-wide without even thinking that the tag might indeed > be used differently in other places.

Re: [Tagging] Recreation_ground (landuse vs leisure)

2013-05-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/5/27 hannes.janet...@gmail.com > To clarify, my commit message was probably not correctly worded. The > change was for features that contained *both* landuse=recreation_ground and > leisure=recreation_ground. Having recreation_ground twice with one tag > documented (proposed and accepted) an

Re: [Tagging] Recreation_ground (landuse vs leisure)

2013-05-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/5/27 > changing from undocumented to documented. > IMHO problematic because if a tag isn't documented how would you know what its intended meaning is? > > changing from uncommon to significant weight in taginfo > fine when there is docu for both tags and they have the same meaning

Re: [Tagging] Recreation_ground (landuse vs leisure)

2013-05-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 27/mag/2013, at 01:25, Tobias Knerr wrote: > I also want to point out that Hannes is not "running a bot". He is, > apparently, simply using JOSM. ...which he uses for manual huge scale edits, so the mechanical edits guidelines do apply anyway. See here for more info: http://wiki.openstreetma

Re: [Tagging] Recreation_ground (landuse vs leisure)

2013-05-27 Thread hannes.janet...@gmail.com
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 1:29 PM, wrote: > > Tobias Knerr writes: > > > On 27.05.2013 00:47, Greg Troxel wrote: > >> > >> Hannes writes: > >>> Sorry, I was not aware of that policy. I will discuss such edits in > future. > >>> Please revert if they are unreasonable > >> > >> You should revert th

Re: [Tagging] Recreation_ground (landuse vs leisure)

2013-05-27 Thread gdt
Tobias Knerr writes: > On 27.05.2013 00:47, Greg Troxel wrote: >> >> Hannes writes: >>> Sorry, I was not aware of that policy. I will discuss such edits in future. >>> Please revert if they are unreasonable >> >> You should revert them yourself. If you aren't comfortable doing >> reverts, yo

Re: [Tagging] Recreation_ground (landuse vs leisure)

2013-05-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 27/mag/2013, at 01:25, Tobias Knerr wrote: > Without patient contributors silently > performing routine housekeeping like that, our database would be even > more messy than it already is. Who knows, I already experienced in the past information loss because of people uniforming some of

Re: [Tagging] Recreation_ground (landuse vs leisure)

2013-05-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05/27/2013 01:25 AM, Tobias Knerr wrote: But with the other changes, things are different. I believe that changing a handful instances of an undocumented tag to an obviously synonymous tag that *is* documented and much more widely used (e.g. 1000x in the case of village green) is valuable