Ulf Lamping wrote: > There are conceptual differences between WP and OSM, but the underlying > problem stays the same. Choose one "prominent" photo representing the > object. WP can do it, so I don't see a good reason why we can't.
Of course we can. I'm just trying to explain that this problem is very similar to the other decisions required when creating a Wikipedia article, and quite different from what we usually do when collecting map data. > The image tag represents an image of the object, not necessarily the > best possible image ever made. That's technically correct, but people will replace an image with a "better" one and oppose to it being replaced with "worse" ones anyway. >> Similarly, it's objective information that my favourite walk is a route >> from X via Y to Z. > > No, if you tell me this, you could simply lie to me :-) I wouldn't tag it as "my favourite walk", though, but use the objective "a route from X via Y to Z", just as you would tag your favourite picture as "an image of object O". > P.S: BTW: It doesn't really matter what you think about it! People will > use image=xy anyway as they already do ;-) Of course they will. I'm just posting this for the "told ya so" rights once we get "my image is nicer than yours" edit wars on images and quality/relevance criteria for image inclusions. Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
