On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:58 PM, fly <[email protected]> wrote: >I wonder why many people try to force the approval of a tag by fast >votes on the wiki. A tag gets approved by uses in the data and software >handling it.
I find it remarkable that after however many years of OSM's existence, statements like this are, sadly enough, kind of true. If the highest level of evolution of a software ecosystem is standards governed by a managed change process, then what we have here is the lowest: no standards, no organised processes, and the only definition of what tags are accepted is whatever random pieces of software happen to arbitrarily support them, in whatever way they judge fit. And, based on my analysis[1], the end result is pretty messy indeed. The situation described in this statement is not an aspirational goal. It's the current quagmire that we all face, and should be trying to find a way out of. Steve [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Stevage/tagsupport _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
