On 17/12/2007 11:16, Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: > David Earl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... >> But if people use random tags to describe objects for which consensus >> already exists, then we have anarchy and the map will be completely >> unusable. >> > > This is why I think deriving the list from planet would be much better. The > majority of tags in use already have descriptions on the wiki that can go > against a listed tag. Where an item doesn't it offers the opportunity for > those using the tag to add something. If nothing gets added then it's > probably a pretty useless tag as you say, in which case nobody will use it. > If when a planet list is periodically dumped it lists with it the statistics > of use then it provides all, including newbie's, with a clear indication of > whether it's a tag they should be using or not.
I think that's fine as a means or achieving consensus, but I really think it needs to be augmented by some definitions. (I'm reminded of the famous Unix anecdote about the syntax for awk - that the developer hacked it up one evening to try it out but it couldn't then be changed to something more friendly because by morning a hundred people were already relying on it). Should we dispense with the voting system? David _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb
