Martin, Let me elaborate on what I mean by this not being the right forum.
I agree with you that it should be. The problem is that in my time on this list- I've seen some pretty wacky ideas that go against what I think most OSMers would consider good tagging. I'd be worried about the results. - Serge On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Martin Vonwald <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > 2015-01-24 13:21 GMT+01:00 Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]>: >> >> There seems to be conflation of this list as having some kind of >> administrative function. It doesn't. >> >> This isn't an OSMF working group, it's a discussion list, and as such >> there is no administrative function for this list beyond the >> boundraries of the voting process on the wiki. >> >> In OSM, "official" tags have no greater status than unofficial ones. > > > Fully agree. > I want to quote one of our core values: "OSM is not a hierarchical > organisation; almost everything can be done without need for central > sanction or even post-hoc approval." > > >> If you'd want to change that, you'd need to change things in OSM at a >> far more fundamental level, and (frankly), I'd be very hesistant to >> see this happen. > > > If someone wants to change this and actually succeeds, I'll not be around > here any more. And I guess I won't be the only one. > > >> >> I do think there'd be value in some practical tagging cleanup- moving >> from 2-3 tags meaning the same thing to a single tag, through some >> agreed-on process, > > > Fully agree. > > >> >> but I don't think this is the right forum for it. > > > Isn't it? Well, then at least it should be. > > > Best regards, > Martin > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
