The page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations#Proposed_uses_of_Relations has a large number of proposed uses of relations, but there never seems to be any forward movement on these.
However flawed the voting system for proposed tags is, at least there is a recognised procedure, and eventually proposed tags either make it into the mainstream of OSM or they don't. But this doesn't seem to be the case with proposed relations. I suspect the reason for this might be twofold. Firstly there is no recognised procedure for moving these forward. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, many of the proposed uses of relations require some degree of knowledge of what the main renderers / other users of OSM data can actually cope with. So for instance there would be no point in me trying to move a particular proposal forward as I don't know if in practice the aim of the proposal can be achieved. I'm afraid I don't have a solution to the problem, but just wanted to flag it up as an issue. David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
