On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Karl Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is one of the major problems with the OSM community. Someone proposes > or just starts using a particular tagging scheme which has some flaws. When > those flaws are pointed out, That is by no means unique to OSM. Unix / C had a function called 'creat' for almost 30 years. The problem is that OSM has a lot of "momentum" (users remembering tags, tags being hardcoded into all kinds of software, hundreds of wikipages etc). So changing tags should not be done lightly. > the OSM pragmatists just say "Oh, we can always change it later. It's a > Wiki, after all." But the truth is, you can't change it, because when > someone does come up with an alternative tagging scheme (like barrier= or > path= or crossing=) that shows some merit over the original, those same > pragmatists come back and say "What!? That tag is wrong/invalid/stupid > because the database already has ten thousand entries of X. And besides, > you'll break everything!" > > Karl >
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