Hi, > Having an approved set of tags means that there is ideally 1, but > certainly a small number of ways of tagging common features, rather > than > 15 or 50.
Even without a mechanism of "approval" people will eventually settle down on a small number of ways of tagging common features. Not having an approval system does not mean people stop talking. To give an example, I was recently looking for a tag for "vineyard". Browsed the wiki and found a longish discussion about the advantages of "landuse=farm,produce=grapes" over "landuse=vineyard" or vice versa. Settled for "landuse=vineyard" and even updated Osmarender to render it properly. The feature is still not "approved" but I think it is very unlikely that anyone will use something else than one of the two ways mentioned. So as long as there's at least some discussion that can be found (either in the Wiki or on the lists), things will go nicely even without formal proposals and approval. A plain simple "hey folks, how do you tag <x>" plus the 10 mails that follow is enough. Either all 10 use the same anyway (or 9 of 10 do), then the issue is clear, or if every single one of the 10 uses something else, but an approval/ voting process wouldn't lead far then. +1 to replacing approval/voting by a good automated mechanism of showing what's there. Agreed, the structuring needs to be solved but this could be done by editing in the Wiki as a completely separate process that does not aim to influence what tags are used, just documents it. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
