On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Chris Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > No. It implies some official status that leads people to remove other tags, > sometimes with mass edits.
IMHO that doesn't follow at all. If people are doing unwanted mass edits, then we should find a way to discourage them. The solution is not to discard any notion of an official or accepted tag. > Just think this through. Approval implies some sort of enforcement, without > enforcement what is the point of approval? Just who would make this > enforcement happen and how? What would that do to an open project? If only > approved tags are used then how would mappers map what they actually see? > Wait weeks for some committee to discuss, argue and approve or reject the > tag? If you are free to use any tag, what is an approval process for? You're making a lot of unfounded assumptions. I'm not sure where to start. - Approval does not imply enforcement. I don't know why you'd think that. Just because we have rules doesn't mean anyone particularly "enforces" them. - "if only approved tags are used" - I explicitly said that it's ok to invent tags to solve a particular problem, then work with others to converge on a convention - "....then how would mappers map what they actually see" - by using the documented tags, and if that doesn't work, extending them, or inventing new ones. - "wait weeks..." - no. It definitely doesn't follow that you should wait for some process rather than using a tag. You should use the best tag available, and update as a result of community consensus. - "if you are free to use any tag, what is an approval process for" - well, I'm not arguing for a particular process. But the answer is "so people tag as consistently as possible with each other". > Flattening the tag structure by homogenising tags is destroying the fine > detail, sometimes carefully crafted by mappers and I will continue to speak > out against mass edits that attempt to do just that. Again, you're making unwarranted assumptions. I haven't suggested anything like that. Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
