Re: [Tagging] Requirements for proposals and voting to be valid

2011-05-11 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
Actually there is a problem here: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/water#values "water" is already in wide use, but most of the values in use are not part of the proposal. Maybe some amendmend or changing of the key name (e.g. water:type seems to be what the proposal wants to achieve: http://t

Re: [Tagging] Requirements for proposals and voting to be valid

2011-05-11 Thread Tobias Knerr
Ilya Zverev wrote: > As some of you remember, there was a > proposal for water=* tag. It was discussed, voted upon and approved by 16 > to 3 votes. But now there are some enraged wiki editors, one of whom erased > the whole voting section and reverted status to "Proposed". And the > reasons, which

Re: [Tagging] Requirements for proposals and voting to be valid

2011-05-11 Thread John Smith
On 11 May 2011 23:04, Richard Mann wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Chris Hill wrote: >> The wiki should be a place to document the various parts of OSM, and for >> things like software it can be useful. For tags, however, it is getting >> steadily more and more complex and confusing and

Re: [Tagging] Requirements for proposals and voting to be valid

2011-05-11 Thread fly
Am 11.05.2011 15:04, schrieb Richard Mann: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Chris Hill wrote: >> The wiki should be a place to document the various parts of OSM, and for >> things like software it can be useful. For tags, however, it is getting >> steadily more and more complex and confusing and

Re: [Tagging] Requirements for proposals and voting to be valid

2011-05-11 Thread Richard Mann
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Chris Hill wrote: > The wiki should be a place to document the various parts of OSM, and for > things like software it can be useful. For tags, however, it is getting > steadily more and more complex and confusing and less and less beneficial. I think we need to s

Re: [Tagging] Requirements for proposals and voting to be valid

2011-05-11 Thread Chris Hill
On 11/05/11 12:38, SomeoneElse wrote: On 11/05/2011 12:19, Ilya Zverev wrote: I've reverted his edits of the proposal page, but is he right? Is any proposal with incorrect subject line in tagging@ post (let along those which weren't mentioned here) automatically invalid? If so most of map fe

Re: [Tagging] Requirements for proposals and voting to be valid

2011-05-11 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/5/11 Ilya Zverev : > I've reverted his edits of the proposal page, but is he right? Is any > proposal with incorrect subject line in tagging@ post (let along those > which weren't mentioned here) automatically invalid? Well, it is an established convention to send an email to tagging with "V

Re: [Tagging] Requirements for proposals and voting to be valid

2011-05-11 Thread SomeoneElse
On 11/05/2011 12:19, Ilya Zverev wrote: I've reverted his edits of the proposal page, but is he right? Is any proposal with incorrect subject line in tagging@ post (let along those which weren't mentioned here) automatically invalid? If so most of map features would be "invalid" because many

[Tagging] Requirements for proposals and voting to be valid

2011-05-11 Thread Ilya Zverev
Hi. Right now I've had a wtf moment. As some of you remember, there was a proposal for water=* tag. It was discussed, voted upon and approved by 16 to 3 votes. But now there are some enraged wiki editors, one of whom erased the whole voting section and reverted status to "Proposed". And the reaso