Hi, > > I feel that it is important not to automatically fix tags, as this could > > result in a custom render suddenly failing. > > Sorry just to clarify, I don't think that it is right for OSM to > automatically fix tags.
I agree, to a point. I would be very unhappy if out of the voting mechanism sprang some sort of automatic juggernaut that would simply throw over everything that five people have decided to be "deprecated". Changing the whole database must not become a routine operation to happen after a vote; it should only happen on a case-by-case basis after careful consideration about the impact, and only if there's general agreement in the community (a three-against- two majority does not count as general agreement). Individual mappers are still the authority, and if we change what they have mapped against their will, chances are that some of them will just change it back. However there are some cases where I think it's perfectly ok to make automated changes without further ado, and these are the cases where it is very likely that spelling errors or misunderstandings have occurred (e.g. changing residental to residential, or changing religion=protestant to religion=christian,denomination=protestant). 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
