On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Ulf Lamping wrote: > d) I don't think it's a good idea to change a tag description two years > after it was documented, because the wording is "slightly" wrong for > some parts of the english speaking world. Because doing so is an > annoyance for anyone involved and the wording will always be slightly > wrong for someone. Not to mention that a lot of people won't > notice/ignore any changes here, as these definitions are "old enough" in > OSM terms. My approach: Stick to the wiki definitions even if you don't > like it and go on mapping :-) >
We need to be able to say "a mistake has been made, these tags need revision" and do something about mistakes. If we don't have a process for dealing with errors in tag choice and translation we will have a massive pile of junk data (and then no-one will care about the licence at all). _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
