On the contrary Chris but I do understand. It seems that many here do not. The objections still baffle me. I can only presume that anyone doing any edit without a GPS and physical survey is not welcomed on this list much like the continuing animosity over armchair mapping/using aerial imagery.
The wiki is a consensus of opinion over the years about how to tag things. The lack of respect for this I find staggering. I have no problem with people using minority tags but if you choose to use them that conflict and/or are easily confused with existing tags. e.g. if you want to use something for describing the type of grass used, use grasstype= or something not natural=grass that *most* have been entered incorrectly when they mean landuse=grass for grass landcover. To be honest I am less likely to engage in discussion about future edits as all they will seem to end in is: always message the original editor, always do a manual survey and you don't know what you are doing - all of which I strongly disagree with. > Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:17:32 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Mass edits of landuse /natural tags > > On 25/04/13 17:00, John Baker wrote: > > Wow creating a storm here. > > > > I cannot believe we are have so much discussion about grass. I have > > had some before not about this type... > > > > See! Discussion is needed. There are points of view that you don't > understand and didn't find out about because you didn't ask. > > > Things should be tagged first and foremost with both wiki definitions > > and what is in general usage. In both of these cases landuse=grass > > should be used for grass landcover. > > No. The wiki is hardly an oracle or fount of all knowledge. It is a > muddle that 'just growed'. There is no right tag or wrong tag and a wiki > page is certainly not a licence to mass edit. You are squashing subtle > meanings from people's tagging that you don't seem to understand even > exists. > > > > This is what is defined in landcover, landuse wiki pages. That is what > > is used in general around the UK. > > So? It's a guide, not a law. It is at the mercy of whomsoever last > edited the page. > > > I know how few natural=grass where in the database before I changed > > them so there were not in common usage and a agreed standard and I am > > confused at the passion this brings for those that didn't even edit it > > as such. > > A minority tag is not there to be squashed out of existence with a mass > edit, it is there because someone chose to use it. The passion is to > show respect for the process of discussing mass edits to prevent people > who don't get it from doing it. > > -- > Cheers, Chris > user: chillly > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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