Hi, > Of course tagging lives and dies by its usefulness; Map_Features is a > way of saying "People who have thought hard about the specific problems > associated with tagging X have discussed it, and decided that this is > the best way. All the renderers recognise this way. You can do it > another way if you like, but you'll run into problems, and it won't get > rendered right."
Much too stringent. If you said: "People who have thought hard about the specific problems associated with tagging X have discussed it and at the time it seemed to them that the best way of tagging it was this. The most widely used renderers will likely support this (but there's no guarantee because those who write the renderers are not generally consulted in the process). You can do it another way if you like and if it suits the purpose you're after." Then it would be near correct. > This is absolutely fine. All I'm saying in addition is instead of me > just going and editing Map_Features to say "actually, I've decided > we should tag all distances in metres", there should be a discussion > process and consensus reached first. Don't say "discussion process", and don't say "consensus". If you want to do something, mention it on the list, and if you judge it to be a consensus or at least a vast majority, then make the change. If there's a vocal minority then the change is not ok and you'll need to investigate further; shouting down the minority by way of voting won't help. BUT: The way we usually do things around here is "those who do the work get to decide how it's done". You are, and not for the first time, talking about how to control what OTHERS do and how they do it (your example is not whether you tag in miles or kilometres, but whether you use the Wiki page to ask others to tag in miles or kilometres). Maybe that's the cultural divide here. If you'd think more about how you want to do your part than about how you can control how others do theirs, then you'd see less conflict. 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
