Re: [OSM-talk] How to deal with versioning

2011-06-01 Per discussione Nigel Magnay
How can we deal with this situation? Do we need to look at distributed version control in software development? How can methods of DVC be adapted to deal with distributed spatial data maintenance? Tag each object additionally with a changeset ID (e.g: a timestamp or a sequence number). That

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC should decide

2009-10-06 Per discussione Nigel Magnay
Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy, but you can't start writing nonsense or material that is not encyclopedia type texts. For example you can't start writing manuals there, you will be kicked out right away. That's *exactly the same* problem though. Who decides what is encyclopedic or nonsense?

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC should decide

2009-10-02 Per discussione Nigel Magnay
Matt Amos wrote: i absolutely agree. i'd also defend frederik's right to say this is the Frederik Ramm approved tagging scheme without catching grief, or andy to say it's the One True Gravitystorm way, etc... etc... Now we're getting somewhere. This goes back to an idea floated a while ago