Frederik Ramm schrieb: > Decisions have to be made every day. But they can be re-decided > tomorrow if the need arises. As long as nobody thinks that something > that has been voted upon by 20 out of 20,000 project members is > somehow above being re-decided tomorrow, that's ok I guess.
That's what I'm taking for granted in any wiki-like project. The approving of tags is (like anything in our wiki) just a recommodation. When you have the desire and time to read the discussion of any tag you use that's fine. That's why those discussion aren't deleted after the voting closed. But I'm not willing to read all those discussions while my desk is covered with paper sketches and JOSM is running. Instead I'm thankful that other people took the time to read and think about those discussions and gave there opinion on a yes/no base allowing me to sum up the discussion at one glance. When the outcome of such a vote doesn't appear sound to me I'm still able to dive into the discussion and make up my own opinion. But on many topics I just have no clue at all and do trust those people who have. When Gerv and other people come to a conclusion how to tag canals I'll just use that sheme when I come along one without making up my opinion. It's like trusting my doctors advice. He's got the expertise I don't. When his advice appears bogus I try another doctor or study medical sciences myself. When your tagging is purely based on the discussions that's fine. But why are you against voting just because you don't use it? Especially newbies can't be expected to spend days reading. On the contrary, they are unexperienced in mapping and trust those who cast their vote based on weeks/months/years of mapping. You aren't against other people mapping features that don't interest you, are you? This, of course, relies on the fact that people only vote on issues they have the knowledge to judge about. The German phrase for this is "Wenn man keine Ahnung hat, einfach mal die Fresse halten!" ;-) regards, Sven Ps: Sorry about the crappy English _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
