Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-11 Thread Aun Johnsen
If I am not entirely mistaken, somebody tagged a pastafarian place in Germany, if somebody from that city can verify if that is really a pastafarian meetingplace or not, than that should end all discussions. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:10 AM, John Smith wrote: > 2010/1/11 John F. Eldredge : >> The

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-10 Thread John Smith
2010/1/11 John F. Eldredge : > The logical Pastafarian building would be a multilevel highway interchange, > with crisscrossing bridges, since a slang term for those (at least in the > USA) is "spaghetti junction".  If you have to cross one of those while it is > covered in ice, there is definit

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-10 Thread John F. Eldredge
10 11:17:26 To: Aun Johnsen Cc: OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians 2010/1/11 Aun Johnsen : > The best political statement we can make is inclusionism. Include > whatever in the database, so that everybody can do whatever they want > with the map. What

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-10 Thread John Smith
2010/1/11 Aun Johnsen : > The best political statement we can make is inclusionism. Include > whatever in the database, so that everybody can do whatever they want > with the map. What I'm wondering is, where is a pastafarian building? After all, I thought we were tagging what's on the ground? I

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-10 Thread Aun Johnsen
The best political statement we can make is inclusionism. Include whatever in the database, so that everybody can do whatever they want with the map. On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Gervase Markham writes: > >> On 06/01/10 19:40, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >>> 2010/1/6 Gre

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-10 Thread Greg Troxel
Gervase Markham writes: > On 06/01/10 19:40, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> 2010/1/6 Greg Troxel mailto:g...@ir.bbn.com>> >> >> We should remember that the purpose of maps is to represent reality to >> map users, not to make political points. >> >> says who? Maps have always and in all

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-09 Thread Gervase Markham
On 06/01/10 19:40, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/1/6 Greg Troxel mailto:g...@ir.bbn.com>> > > We should remember that the purpose of maps is to represent reality to > map users, not to make political points. > > says who? Maps have always and in all ages been means of politics... Per

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-07 Thread colliar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Martin Koppenhoefer schrieb: > 2010/1/6 Greg Troxel mailto:g...@ir.bbn.com>> > > We should remember that the purpose of maps is to represent reality to > map users, not to make political points. > > > > says who? Maps have always and in

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-06 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2010/1/6 Greg Troxel > We should remember that the purpose of maps is to represent reality to > map users, not to make political points. says who? Maps have always and in all ages been means of politics... ;-) cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list t

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Greg, Greg Troxel wrote: > and (more or less) the community views it as such as > evidenced by holding services of some kind with some attendance". This > latter part is necessary to exclude Joe putting up a "church of Joe" in > his front yard; the town would then say "joe is a nutcase", as oppos

Re: [OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-06 Thread Greg Troxel
In other words, stop the edit war, discuss pros and cons on the talk page, and be open to include more rather than remove. If it is concluded as not a religion than find alternative tagging. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:religion [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:d

[OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians

2010-01-06 Thread Aun Johnsen
I have seen tendences to an edit war on Key:religion [1] with a possible spread to Key:denomination [2]. No matter if Pastafarianism is a legimit religion or not, this edit war will not benefit anybody. I have added a section on Talk:Key:religion where those oposing the Pastafarians being represent