I agree with Aun .. Mike Harris
> -----Original Message----- > From: Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 27 August 2009 01:05 > To: Frederik Ramm > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] New dimension of vandalism > > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:43:22 +0200, Frederik Ramm > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > [email protected] wrote: > >> There was a change on the highway key wiki page, that > interferes with > >> the concept presented here. > > > > Have you read the following relevant thread on talk-de: > > > > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2009-August/052258.ht > > ml > > > > Since both you and dieterdreist are speakers of German, I'm > surprised > > that you didn't speak up when the issue was raised on talk-de three > > weeks ago and now start a discussion on this list. > > > The German speaking community on OSM is large, but not large > enough to form a majority, this sort of discussions should be > brought forward to the general talk if the national lists > agrees in some form of change so that those of us that > doesn't speak german can take part in the process. > > > IMHO this is a new dimension of vandalism. > > > > The acronym "IMHO" is not well placed if you throw around such > > accusations. What you're saying here is not a "humble" opinion. > > > > > I also think we need a consensus that tag descriptions for tags > > that > are used more than 100.000 times shall not be > changed without > > a > proposal. > > > > That seemed to be the consensus on talk-de as well (or at least > > "without prior discussion", not necessarily on the Wiki - > personally I > > dislike proposals, discussions and voting on the Wiki). > > > If such discussions on national/lingual mailing lists isn't > brought to other lists, and mainly to talk, than the Wiki is > the only common medium. > All proposal of this scale should have an english page > (though I guess there will be discussions in several linguas > as well) and consesus have to be reached among all groups of > OSM, not a couple of selective groups, even if it is the > larger communities. > > Adding new tags, and changing widely used tags are two very > different topics, and the bar of changing a tag such as > highway should be much higher than to add a new type of amenities. > > -- > Brgds > Aun Johnsen > via Webmail > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
