+1, Totally agree with this. I think I also mentioned the "be in proposal for an extended period" before. Give a tagging scheme the time to mature, new variations/needs might pop up only after a couple of months.
regards m On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Martin Vonwald <[email protected]> wrote: > In my opinion changing the word doesn't get rid of the problem. Especially > if the "word" - no matter if it is published, approved, whatever - is the > result of another glorious vote. There should be no "vote" at the end of > any discussion, because the discussion never ends! Especially there should > be no "vote" before the tag is used on a wide base and proves itself! (A > very, very bad habit that established itself on this mailing list in the > previous months.) > > Instead of any "status" we should show to the wiki reader how wide the > acceptance and support of a given feature is. There should be a list of > supporting mappers, supporting applications and - if possible - a number > from taginfo. On each wiki page we should only show the number of > supporting mappers and applications (including a link to the respective > lists where) and the usage from taginfo. > > Every new tag/feature should be a proposal for at least a year (yes, I > mean a year and not a week, day or hour). If after a year the tag/feature > is used(!) by the community, it will be moved outside the proposal > namespace. The determination of "used by the community" of course will be > highly subjective and we can not define rules for this, because the usage > strongly depends on the feature itself, e.g. camp-site features will have > different usage numbers than traffic signs. But the number of supporters > will provide some objective to the wiki readers. > > Finally - some of you may ask now: what about the rejecters, disapprovers, > vetoers? Easy! They should find a better solution than the proposed one, > document it, use it, support it. > > > Best regards, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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