Peter Dobratz wrote: > Yes, OSMF US shouldn't mandate a certain tagging scheme, > but they could certainly help to facilitate a consensus among > the community.
I'm definitely of the "small government" party for what OSMF (and by extension local chapters) should do. But one of the roles of OSMF, as part of its "support and encourage" mission, is to help cut through blockages that are holding OSM back. I think you could make a case that OSM in the US is being held back by the community's failure to agree on a common tagging scheme for roads (about five years after every other country settled on one, and with no sign of it being resolved any time soon). Ideally this should be done by, as you say, "facilitating a consensus", but if that hasn't worked then it may be time to consider something more forceful. But I'm from the Old Country, feel free to ignore me if you have a better plan. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/What-does-the-community-want-from-a-US-local-chapter-tp6847994p6848697.html Sent from the USA mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
