Hi! I've noticed today there is an epic voting battle on the fields of wiki. Hundreds of mappers came to state their disapproval of person relation type. I wonder how many of them actually mapped one, or even seen such relations. I found some of them in 2011, and posted an entry in SHTOSM about such relations. After at least three years, this proposal is not about new relation type, and you should understand this.
There are 1648 relations of type=person already in the database. It's #17 in the taginfo, it has a JOSM plugin and probably some related websites. The proposal is basically about documenting a relation type. It either can be found in the wiki, or not. Nobody here has the power of removing all such relations from the database. Are mappers who add it allowed to document what they are doing? Right now it seems the majority of voters thinks otherwise. Some say, you cannot make something appear in the database just by passing proposals in the wiki. You should do some mapping first. Well, poles have been mapping for 4 years. Is it enough? Or should they have waited another 4 years, so there are 10k relations of this type? It is a part of OpenStreetMap, whether you like it or not. It won't go away if you vote "no" on the proposal, and there won't be less such relations added. So this is not about a new type. This is about documenting something that has been mapped for years. And now, this far into mapping "persons" in OSM, you should not prevent documenting established relation types, but help document them better. IZ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
