Ulf Lamping wrote: > Frederik Ramm schrieb: >> Well. Before there were no vineyards on the map. And the discussion >> was rather dead. What do you expect me to do, start a vote or just do >> it in a way that works and gets vineyards on the map > Well, I'd expect you to start a vote just like anyone else and NOT > "abuse your power position" as one of the persons who knows how to > change the rendering rules.
Well, there's an issue. At present there are perhaps three main influences on what tags are used: what's documented, what's rendered, and what the editors present as presets. I can only speak for part of the last-named (and arguably least significant). Potlatch's preset and autocomplete tags are meant to reflect what the community wants and uses. At present they are taken almost directly from Map Features. Unfortunately Map Features may be diverging from the community. Tags are proposed and voted on by a very small subset of people. Commonly used tags have had their descriptions "clarified" so that they mean something significantly different from what they did originally. And we have the situation where someone (like Gerv) proposes a sensible set of tags for an area where he clearly has some subject knowledge - inland waterways - and where his proposals are being niggled and criticised unjustly by people who don't; which hardly encourages people with subject knowledge to lend their expertise. All the bureaucracy rather reminds me of Wikipedia, to be honest. Consequently I am leaning towards replacing the Map Features-derived presets in Potlatch with something produced by a tagwatch-style approach (though retaining Map Features data as an option for those who wish to use it). Is this abusing a position? No, I don't think so. It's the voting that has diverged from the community, not the other way round, and Potlatch should follow the community. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
