On 18.03.2015 23:09, Warin wrote: > A person coming across something that they want to map and then finding it > on the wiki .. If that person is not on the tagging group then they don't > want to be concerned with making tags, they simply want to use them.
Compare it to politics. Many people don't participate in politics, but have clear political opinions, and they will tell their opinions whenever they can do it without effort. It's much easier to leave a comment in the wiki on the fly than to continously participate in a maling list reading hundreds of messages every week. > Leaving > comments and voting open for years won't change that .. it may simply > confuse them as they want to use a tag That's fine. People should be encouraged to use their brains. > .. if it is 'proposed' or 'voting' > status wise they may be discouraged from using it. They use it unless they find better alternatives. > I see no point in having a proposal open for voting over 1 year, those that > want to vote have done so, the proposals voting should be closed and resolved. There were some proposals where I wanted to vote, but I missed the short voting timeframe. > The apiary proposal > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/apiary > Promotes one tag and list other tags that could be used .. It has been in > comments stage for a few years .. abandoned? I think that the "abandoned" status should be renamed, and that its colour should be gray or yellow instead of red. -- Friedrich K. Volkmann http://www.volki.at/ Adr.: Davidgasse 76-80/14/10, 1100 Wien, Austria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
