Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Tom Hughes wrote: >> It was "approved" on the basis of a tiny vote on the wiki and I would >> say there is zero chance of most people switching from the tags that >> have been in use for several years to some new scheme that, as I >> understand it, requires about five tags for each path. > > > Given that most of the UK examples on the wiki were actually wrong by > > their own definition last time I looked I certainly plan to stick to > > what we've always done. > > A very similar thing seems to have happened recently with the > "Crossing" tag. > > I've never been a friend of that voting business but it seems to get > more absurd every day. Is it perhaps time now to have a vote on > abolishing votes altogehter - or should we continue to let people vote > on whatever they like and ignore the results? It's fine with me but > seems to irritate newbies who lack the stubbornness that speaks from > your above paragraph ;-) > > Bye > Frederik > I'm not touching the "voting"-"no voting" issue :). I'm just trying to think ahead and consider how this data that we're so happily entering will be used for purposes other than just rendering (getting back to my hiking-buddy SW idea I mentioned a few times before). If we have 10 different ways of describing the same thing it's going to be difficult to implement and maintain SW that uses this data.
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