On 27 May 2012 18:11, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27/05/2012 17:54, Worst Fixer wrote: >> >> Hello. >> >> There is on going import of Buildings in city Chicago. >> >> Import is held by following account: >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chicago-buildings >> >> I found no discussions of this import. No announcement. I searched bad? >> >> It is absent from following web page: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue >> >> I want know why importer uses following tags: >> >> * chicago:building_id (314 330 objects, used by 2 users). >> >> I sent letter to importer, and he said he will not import this tag any >> more. But, he continues to. No justification of need for tag was given. >> > Who has the right to ban a tag? Where does it say that a tag has to be > justified?
The DWG has the right to block imports with unjustified tags and has done that on many occasions, and also made it clear on the imports@ list that this would happen. It's also documented on the wiki. However the partial street name tags have been discussed on talk-us@ several times and were considered to be useful. I'd also say that a single "id" tag referring to another database may be useful and not an overkill to the OSM database. Not saying that the precise tagging shouldn't have been discussed beforehand. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
