On Fri, 29 May 2009 17:56:19 +0200 Gerrit Lammert <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As I mentioned earlier, I am founder and main contributor to the > unified_stoparea proposal. > > Well, I actually _do_ feel a little offended by two things. > - First: I am confused at how little reference to "my" proposal I find > in the new scheme. It's not that I am vain or anything, but you copied > about anything from that proposal and just gave some items new names. > I wonder if you read it and really copied most of it, in which case I > would have expected some note about it, or if you came up with that on > your own, but than this would show bad research (but still means we > both came independently to the same solution(s)). > - Second: I tried to rally for a coherent PT-tagging scheme for weeks > without end in the beginning of the year (mainly the german list, but > also here) with disappointingly little feedback. I wished you (Jochen > and his group) would have participated in the process back then. > It would have saved me a lot of work and a lot of people that started > to use the unified_stoparea-proposal to eventually re-tag all of > their work. > Unfortunately, this sort of thing can happen in OSM. I don't know why. Hopefully mostly simple oversight. It occurred to me that parts of this work were built on the foundation you laid, and actually I assumed you were part of this workshop (without checking). > That said: I really _am_ happy that there is some progress in this > field. As you guys have a group (and the geofabrik) behind you, its > much more likely to succeed and become wide spread. And I am very > interested to have a unified tagging scheme, whatever name it bears. > Kudos to the producers of this wonderful comprehensive scheme. They knuckled down and put in the time, creating something really polished. I do think they should credit you, though. Your ideas, Gerrit, really untied some knots in my thinking about this problem. It is reasonable that you speak up. I'm very happy it's almost ready, too. Well done all. Cheers _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
