Re: [OSM-talk] Railways yet again (was "THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject")

2015-09-09 Thread Russ Nelson
Andy Townsend writes: > If there's something new to add I, as an OSM list-reading punter*, would > be glad to read it (perhaps on the tagging list if that's what it's > about) but frankly it's all getting a bit repetitive. This time around it's: who do we encourage to contribute to OSM?

Re: [OSM-talk] Railways yet again (was "THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject")

2015-09-09 Thread Russ Nelson
Frederik Ramm writes: > But what if I have said the same thing five times already and the others > STILL don't see that I'm RIGHT Nobody has told me how I can create a relation which hops between OSM and OHM. Nobody has told me how I can have a node keep the same location in both OSM and

[OSM-talk] Railways yet again (was "THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject")

2015-09-08 Thread Andy Townsend
May I respectfully suggest that before anyone sends yet another reply to this thread that they ask "Has this point of view been put forward already?". Everyone is well aware that there is disagreement (and sometimes even disagreement over what to disagree over), but people are rarely won over

Re: [OSM-talk] Railways yet again (was "THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject")

2015-09-08 Thread Dave F.
I'm loving the irony of Andy's criticism of people repeating themselves by repeating himself not once, or twice, but three times. In the same message. (& no, I don't believe it was done intentionally for comic effect). Dave F. (bored of people in OSM thinking they're somehow superior to

Re: [OSM-talk] Railways yet again (was "THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject")

2015-09-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: > But what if I have said the same thing five times already and the > others STILL don't see that I'm RIGHT Please try not to bring OSMF board meeting conventions onto the talk list. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Railways yet again (was "THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject")

2015-09-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 09/08/2015 03:12 PM, Andy Townsend wrote: > * written entirely in the personal capacity of someone who is fed up of > reading the same mailing list posts by several people repeating > different sides of the same argument ad nauseam. But what if I have said the same thing five times