Everyone, I think this is going in the wrong direction. I have just skim-read this thread but I have the impression that the basic assumption seems to be "tagging votes are an important core element of how we work at OSM, so we must increase participation, make tagging votes more widely known, and translate proposals so that everyone can participate".
It is however not true that tagging votes are an important core element of how we work; we can do perfectly fine without. Even if certain things were tagged differently in different parts of the word, that would not break OpenStreetMap. Tagging votes are not a big and important thing; in my opinion, they are not even important enough to warrant a posting to a national-language mailing list that says "please vote" (hello Bryce). Votes are neither binding (for editors or renderers), nor are they final. If a vote were held on something and it later turns out that a much larger proportion of people than actually participated in the vote dislike the outcome, then the vote is practically void. A democratic vote might be a good tool for some things; it is not the proper tool to decide on tagging in OpenStreetMap. The outcome of a vote should really be phrased: "The following 35 people think that this proposal is a good idea and would recommend using it" rather than "This proposal has been accepted" because the latter really affords the whole process much more relevance than it actually has. So please, don't go over board here by trying to force-involve every mapper in tag votes; they're simply not important enough, and they *should not be*. Don't try to make them important, lasting, or binding. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
