Hello everyone, I am new to the OSM community, sorry if my suggestions are totally naïve.
Fact: The collective end product is rendered somehow, and the renderer stylesheets decide, how to interprete tags. So it seems to me, that creating 2 things is necessary: 1.: We need a process of negotiation about tag rendering standards. (i.e., between the people who write the Mapnik stylesheet and the others who want to see their tags rendered in a certain way). This process perhaps should not block or dominate the communication of the whole OSM workers. This decision making process can be "collective" or "representative", by a elected group of people. Meta decisions: I think the implementation of the decision making process should be a collective process. Could be an interesting challenge to create good democratic structures by an online community. 2.: Tag babelfish: the most important idioms in tag creation should be unified by a program. Perhaps this is already the case? The tag babelfish rules should be documented in a systematic way, with the opportunity of every tagging religion to explain their beliefs. How does that sound? Cheers, Jochen _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
