Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Dave F. wrote: >> I don't understand why others should have to spend time sorting out >> OSM's vagaries purely because we can't decide. > > The yes/no question may be the most trivial of cases but generally we > are reluctant to force a structure onto our mappers. But passing it on to others is somehow seen as acceptable?! > When choosing between something that restricts our mappers and > something that makes life more difficult for our users, we always > choose the second because mappers are more precious than users. I'm not convinced by that argument. Choice does not necessarily make things simpler. > > Granted, there's not much creativity or personal style involved in > choosing between yes/no and true/false so mappers would probably not > object to that; but in general the idea "let's have a rigid structure > so that life becomes easier for our users" is not what we want. If, by users, you mean the likes of Flickr, then I have to disagree with you. The vast, vast majority of manufacturers spend a lot of time trying to make their products simple to use so they sell more units.
Also, in this instance, how would disallowing True/False, 1/0 make it rigid or have less choice? Because they all represent the same options, nothing would be lost. Cheers Dave F. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
