>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Friedrich Volkmann <b...@volki.at> wrote: >>> I recently came across a never proposed tag with some 600 uses marked >>> "de-facto". If that's the way to bypass the proposal process, I will >>> never care about proposals any more. > > How do you know there was any intent to bypass the proposal process ? > Tags can reach widespread use without ever having been discussed or > documented.
There were no 600 uses when the page was created. > Somebody documenting this in a "de-facto proposal" after > the fact is a good thing. Not when I had just started a topic called "Status" on the discussion page. The user who changed the status to de-facto did not even reply to that topic. And do you think that 600 is de-facto? >>> I will set all the tags I invented to "inuse" >>> as soon as I used them once, and to "defacto" as soon as I used them >>> twice, because 2 uses are widespread compared to 1. > > There's obviously some threshold where it's reasonable. Don't mock > using an extreme value, it just devaluates your good argument. As a software developer, I use to consider extreme values. And being somewhat into mathematics, I use to choose the easiest solution for given parameters. So you find the "1" / "2" thresholds too low? That's something to start with. So far we have 3 parameters: number of OSM objects, number of real-word objects, number of users. Let's put them into a formula in order to enable objective decisions and avoid edit wars. -- Friedrich K. Volkmann http://www.volki.at/ Adr.: Davidgasse 76-80/14/10, 1100 Wien, Austria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
