On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Chris Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > I do not agree with the whole basis of this thread. > > There are no such things as approved tags, tagging is open and people are > free to use *any* tags they like. ... > Advertise your ideas and encourage acceptance. Show how well it works any
How would you know whether a tag had "acceptance"? Wouldn't documenting it somewhere make sense? Maybe...in a wiki? What would you call "acceptance"? Would "approved" be a reasonable synonym for that? The wiki and (currently broken) approval mechanism is not some horrible bureaucracy that exists to ruin your life. It's there so we, as a community, can document the tags we use, and agree on how we use them. While it's ok to spontaneously invent a new tag and use it to solve your current problem, you can surely see the benefits of everyone eventually converging on the same tag? And if so, what would you do with all the old tags that people used before you converged? Wouldn't you "deprecate" them? Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
