Re: [OSM-talk] Overhaul of voting process (was: Road crossings proposal - status?)

2008-05-08 Thread Stephen Hope
But what is a significant amount of use? You can't just go on numbers. Based on the posts a month or so back about badly formed tags, there are probably more misspelled versions of the main highway tags than legitimate versions of many other tags. I would, in fact, think that a well thought out

Re: [OSM-talk] Overhaul of voting process

2008-05-08 Thread Alex Mauer
Gervase Markham wrote: > Lastly, it cannot tell you if 50% of people are using foo=bar to mean > one thing, and the other 50% are using it to mean something else. Tags > do not contain all of their semantics in their names. It also can't tell you when different tags mean the same thing. If 50%

Re: [OSM-talk] Overhaul of voting process

2008-05-08 Thread Gervase Markham
Christoph Eckert wrote: > IMO map features should be built on top of tagwatch. This way tagging > recommendations would be built on top what's actually used. Much more > democratic than the current process IMO :) . Tagwatch tells you what is. It cannot by itself tell you what should be. It coul

Re: [OSM-talk] Overhaul of voting process

2008-05-08 Thread Alex Mauer
Stephen Gower wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:01:33AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > That sounds eminently sensible, and in general I agree with your > proposals. For those who think the RFC/vote process represents the > consensus on how things should be done, what needs to happen to >

Re: [OSM-talk] Overhaul of voting process (was: Road crossings proposal - status?)

2008-05-08 Thread Celso González
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:42:55AM +1200, Robin Paulson wrote: > 2008/5/8 Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > For those who think the RFC/vote process represents the > > > consensus on how things should be done, what needs to happen to > > > change that process? > > > > IMO map feat

Re: [OSM-talk] Overhaul of voting process (was: Road crossings proposal - status?)

2008-05-07 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/5/8 DavidD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/5/7 Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > using tagwatch is a good idea as a basis for proposals, but problems > > arise when we have two ways of tagging the same type of item. how does > > anyone decide which should be used? one must be more opti

Re: [OSM-talk] Overhaul of voting process (was: Road crossings proposal - status?)

2008-05-07 Thread DavidD
2008/5/7 Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > using tagwatch is a good idea as a basis for proposals, but problems > arise when we have two ways of tagging the same type of item. how does > anyone decide which should be used? one must be more optimal than the > other. having two methods running

Re: [OSM-talk] Overhaul of voting process (was: Road crossings proposal - status?)

2008-05-07 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/5/8 Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > For those who think the RFC/vote process represents the > > consensus on how things should be done, what needs to happen to > > change that process? > > IMO map features should be built on top of tagwatch. This way tagging > recommendation

Re: [OSM-talk] Overhaul of voting process (was: Road crossings proposal - status?)

2008-05-07 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > For those who think the RFC/vote process represents the >   consensus on how things should be done, what needs to happen to >   change that process? IMO map features should be built on top of tagwatch. This way tagging recommendations would be built on top what's actually used. Much more

[OSM-talk] Overhaul of voting process (was: Road crossings proposal - status?)

2008-05-07 Thread Stephen Gower
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:01:33AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > > * Some people started tagging *and rendering* crossings, using a > > particular tagging scheme. > > * Some other people, who weren't actually out doing the work, started > > complaining about what was going on [1] > > May