Steve Bennett wrote:
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Russ Nelson<[email protected]> wrote:
So? The wiki is the place for documenting how YOU map, not how other
people SHOULD map. The only thing you SHOULDN'T do in the wiki is
change the description of how other people map.
+1 (in the sense of the wiki shouldn't say "most people do X" when
actually "most people do Y")
C'mon. Clearly that's not true. The primary purpose of the wiki is to
establish standards that everyone maps by.
Well, it's to "document" standards, not to "create" them. If that's
what you meant by "establish" then +1 to you too.
The biggest problem the wiki has is that in some quarters editing it
seems to have become an end in itself rather than a necessary evil to
make sure that we're all singing off the same hymnsheet. "Documenting"
obscuring procedures that almost no-one follows helps no-one, as does
"approving" tags when only a few people could be bothered to "vote".
There's also a regular problem with "extrapolating from the local" -
some wiki editors state something that may be true in their local area,
but simply isn't worldwide. Unless a comment of that sort is caveated
with e.g. "In the Duchy of Grand Fenwick..." it's often confusing.
Where the wiki works well it's on pages like this one:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/National_Byway
It got to be in its current state because someone (Monxton) rearranged a
previous sprawling mess after discussion on talk-gb about how best to
structure it - it hasn't been "invented, imposed and ignored" as a
number of other pages have been.
Cheers,
Andy
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