On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Matthijs Melissen <i...@matthijsmelissen.nl > wrote:
> As far as I know, we don't have a policy on which tags to include in > the rendering, and there is currently no consensus within the > development team on what the best policy would be. Personally I'm > trying to steer towards requiring an accepted proposal plus > documentation on the wiki before rendering a new tag, but I know not > all of the developers share this point of view. Currently, proposals > for newly rendered tags are currently discussed on a case by case > base. > Requiring an accepted proposal plus good documentation sound like a reasonable policy. I would probably add, that the tag is sufficiently used, and/or be very desirable. It is interesting that developers are discussing which tags to render as well as being discussed on the tagging mail list. It seems like we should have the benefit of both discussions. While not all tags need to be, or even should be displayed, I wonder if it might knowing if a tag is likely to be rendered would have an impact the acceptance of tags. It shouldn't, but it might sway voting. Even more so, the decision by developers to add the tag to editors. I would think that having a tag supported by JOSM and iD would more quickly lead to its acceptance. Conversely, not including the tag could result in it being one of the many tags with limited use. Voting is all well and good, but it seems like we need to encourage dialog with developers to support new tags or understand why they don't think the tag is worthwhile of their time and effort. I feel that voting should be just part of the approval process. If we, the mappers, feel like a new tag should be adopted, then we should make sure that developers share our belief. I am not saying that developers need to be part of the initial dialog. We would probaby scare them off from ever taling to us again! Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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