On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 4:03 PM François Lacombe <[email protected]> wrote: > Past proposals are *always* useful knowledge, even if strong issues has been > pointed during voting or RFC. > I'm not in favor to delete anything, as to show a little respect to someone > who took time to make things better.
At the very least, we want to preserve the discussion, and the rationale for why the idea was considered and rejected, or else the same idea will sooner or later be put forward again by someone ignorant of the history. Moreover, I'm all for documenting tags as soon as a mapper starts using them. The wiki page can (ought to?) indicate that the tags are unapproved, but we at least want to get a record of what the mapper intended. Unless we've abandoned https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like, we certainly should not forbid the use of unapproved tags. Moreover, the process of creating a proposal and seeing it through the discussion here is - I can relate from my personal experience - extremely intimidating and frustrating. (That's for good reason, and I applaud those who are passionate about making the best map possible, but ultimately "the perfect is the enemy of the good.") If unapproved tags for new feature classes cannot be used, it may be years before a mapper can add the features, and those features are likely not to be mapped because the mapper will simply abandon the project out of exhaustion or frustration. Clearly, we don't want to have mappers inventing their own tagging for existing common objects, but that tends to be self-correcting as soon as the mapper discovers that there is established tagging that renderers, routers and navigation systems already use. But for uncommon features that are likely not yet of broad interest, experimental tagging without first going through a "Mother, may I?" process is implicitly encouraged by https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
