Note also massive influence of JOSM validator and other
rule-checker tools.

2015-01-16 13:14 GMT+01:00 moltonel 3x Combo <molto...@gmail.com>:

> On 16/01/2015, Pieren <pier...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Historical contributors and leaders will tell you that there is no
> > "official committee" in OSM. But, to be a litle provocative, I would
> > say we already have two committees for tagging scheme:
> > - the JOSM presets maintainers
> > - the DWG
>
> AFAIK the DWG's influence on tags is fairly light. But all the editors
> (not just josm), the renderings (especially the "default" mapnik one,
> but also the specialized 3d and indoor ones), the search engines
> (Nominatim), the routers (OSRM) all carry a lot of weight. Anybody
> spending time on the wiki and mailing lists (and to a lesser degree
> also on forum, irc, help, etc) carry some weight too.
>
> Of course not everybody has the same weight... But that crowd is
> varied enough that there's IMHO no reason to fear one overreaching
> commitee.
>
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