On 2 April 2011 11:11, Ulf Lamping <[email protected]> wrote:
> This way we'll have to change each and every tag every year because someone > finds the "new and improved" way to do things as the current tag fashion > expects him to. > Ulf, the new schema was introduced after quite a lot of discussion, changes to the proposal and debates about the best way to proceed. I don't remember anybody saying the existing schema was sufficient. Why waste everyone's time grumbling when this "imperfect but all we have" process has run its course? I agree that in general we don't want to have to keep changing the way we tag things. Five years since I started with OSM it irritates me sometimes too. But in the case of the power=generator tags it was a case of the original tagging being very basic and insufficient to say what sort of generator an object is. So we changed it. Get over it. > *... and I'll especially call it wiki fiddling if the currently widely used > tags are removed from the wiki without even keeping a note of the old tags.* > This I accept, needing obsolete tags documented for data users is a valid point that I didn't consider when updating the wiki. Regards, Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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