On Friday, 7 April 2017 11:28:32 CEST Marc Gemis wrote: > I just stumbled upon the wiki page > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names#Brussels > I was surprised to read e.g. "Note that the "first mapper rule" is > deprecated now." and "In OSM, we have a consensus to use a fixed > order" (both changes made by Gplv2 on Oct 19, 2016) > > Not that I care about the order of French and Dutch on those > streetnames, but it would be nice to inform the community about such > an important change via the mailing list, not ? If this is indeed the > consensus I would have violated it since I did not know deprecation of > the first mapper rule. > > I asked Gplv2 to point me to the discussion leading to the consensus. > > So I have no problems with this being the consensus, I do have a > problem that such an important change is made without informing the > mailing list.
There was a small talk about it around that time in the thread "Some information about Nominatim for addresses in Brussels" on this mailing list. But there was no real discussion to change it, and certainly no consensus. Ben _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
