On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Dave Swarthout <[email protected]>
wrote:

> +1 "Nobody votes because it's a borderline pointless endeavor."
>
> I joined this group to effect changes in tagging things of interest to me.
> But the discussions inevitably go round and round with nary a thing getting
> resolved. If someone has what seems like a good idea there is always
> someone else who takes issue with it.
>

The mailing lists and just going out and tagging seem to do more good than
calling convoluted proposals and voting sessions, so there's that.  For
best results, get a working model going first.  It's not like the database
is going to kick out esoterickey=unknownvalue...

Frankly, getting anything done is just too time consuming. I realize
> getting consensus on a topic is a difficult goal but I decided to just
> avoid using any controversial tags. There's enough basic mapping needed
> where I live to keep me plenty busy.
>

This.  Also glad Mapillary is a thing; I'm starting to try to use this to
avoid having to rely so heavily on memory and searching geolocations on
photos I've taken and hoping it happened to capture what I need...
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