David Marchal wrote: > What is the applicability of the Wiki content? Three long-standing principles of OSM:
1. consensus is important 2. precedent is important 3. patches beat "should" The first means that you can't order the community to do things based on ten people voting on the wiki. taginfo, major clients, and agreement on these lists are also valid indicators of consensus, often more so. The second means that you can't order the community to do things which break long-established OSM good practice, even if you've voted it through on the wiki. The third means that you can't simply get ten votes on the wiki and require editor or stylesheet authors to change their code or maps. A vote on the wiki does not mean that these people have to spend hours coding something for your new relation scheme, nor does it even mean they are obliged to accept a patch from you if they disagree with it. So the applicability of the wiki content is to the wiki. But it is one of several indicators of consensus in the wider project, and it's consensus that drives the project and tagging in particular. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Applicability-of-wiki-tagging-and-votes-may-should-or-must-tp5866166p5866182.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk