(... Not entirely seriously ...) If OSM is an international project - and IMHO it most certainly IS and should be! - then what can you possibly mean by your phrase 'foreign national'? Or are you extraterrestrial ... In which case 'welcome to planet earth' - but, as OSM is a community-drive project I am so sorry but 'we cannot take you to our leader'.
My wife is only foreign when she is in England ... And I am only foreign when I am not ... Mike Harris > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Körner [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 02 December 2009 18:41 > To: talk openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Vegetation page > > Hi > > > as an programmer my first bolean thoughts where > An as a foreign national my thoughts were "And I thought OSM > was an international project..". > > > Ok, a couple of points need to be made here: > > > > 1) It's just a disambiguation page. It even says that the > definitions > > aren't official. > What the hell is "official"? This is a community driven project! > > > 2) Your comment indicates that there is value in collecting > together > > these definitions together in little knowledge bases to > provoke discussion. > > 3) Yes, I think it's a dumb tag too. One of the legacies of > its very > > English history. It would be much better off as a landuse=* tag > > describing it as publicly owned grass, with an amenity=* tag or > > something identifying it as the village green. But what can you do. > We need to get a world-wide usable description for it. If we > can't get one, we should mark it as deprecated. > > Peter > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
