Hi, The effort has not been undone - the data is still there in OSM, and certainly usable. The issue is how to come to a community consensus (across UK-based OSM community) in how to tag those refs, so let's try to join the discussions all together. The previous discussion seems to me level-headed, and it'd be useful to hear your arguments added to it.
It's tricky with OSM because no-one really has ownership over any particular aspect of tagging schema, even if they develop software and/or perform mapping which relies heavily on certain data layouts. It's a living beast. I guess data consumers would often have a tweakable mapping from OSM into their own use-case. Best Dan Op di 28 aug. 2018 om 12:55 schreef webmas...@killyfole.org.uk <webmas...@killyfole.org.uk>: > > Dave, > > The objection is that you are undoing the effort and time spent by mappers in > these areas for your own agenda. Mappers, like myself, have added these tags > for a reason at considerable time and effort and that had basically been > trashed in a matter of seconds. Not only that, you are being extremely > arrogant towards contributors who do not want your edits, even considering > banning users for an editing war. > > KDDA > > On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 12:39:33 IST Dave F wrote: > > Hi Toby > > > > You've been given the link to the previous discussions, which explains > > the reasons. > > > > What is your objection to the reasons given for this amendment? > > > > The wiki is a guide, not the law. It hasn't been updated yet as you & > > others still wish to discuss the situation. If it had, I suspect there > > would have been complaints that it was amended before being discussed > > (even though it has). > > > > It's the responsibility of the creators of the software to ensure they > > keep up to date with the ever changing database. > > > > Cheers > > DaveF > > > > On 27/08/2018 19:15, Toby Speight wrote: > > > Recently, all the tertiary roads in my region had their ref tags > > > removed, and replaced with "highways_authority_ref". A week later the > > > unclassified and residential roads suffered similar attack. > > > > > > * Who is supposed to benefit from hiding these data? > > > * Who is responsible for documenting what this tag means, and when it > > > > > > should be used in place of the standard tagging? So far, there's no > > > mention of it on its own tag wiki, nor on key:ref > > > > > > * Who is responsible for coordinating the related changes to software - > > > > > > editors, renderers, converters and QA tools - that are required? I > > > see no sign of any of this having started. > > > > > > In short, what's going on, what's wrong with the standard tagging, and > > > how can we get the data back where they belong? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Talk-GB mailing list > > > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-GB mailing list > > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
