Of the 8 opposing votes, only 1 has made the effort to comment beforehand on the talk page. The 7 others just came in and voted no, without any discussion beforehand. That doesn't seem correct. It should not be possible to be suddenly faced with this fait accompli.
On Thu, 7 May 2020 11:49:43 -0700, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > The voting period closed for amenity=motorcycle_taxi with 11 votes to > approve and 8 votes in opposition, therefore it is not approved, since the > 74% majority requirement was not met. > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:amenity%3Dmotorcycle_taxi#Voting > > Opposing voters preferred using amenity=taxi + motorcycle=yes or > amenity=taxi + taxi=motorcycle > > Surprisingly, at least 2 opposing voters would be willing to use > amenity=taxi + taxi=submarine or taxi=airplane for a location where you > could hire a submarine or airplane. > > However, several "yes" voters were strongly opposed to expanding the > definition of amenity=taxi which currently is limited to taxicabs > (generally assumed to be 4-wheel motor vehicles in contemporary British > English). > > So, what's the next step? > > 1) Propose using taxi=motorcar, =motorcycle, =boat, =airplane, and get that > idea officially rejected (it appears it would be certain to fail), or is > that a waste of everyone's time? > > 2) Make a proposal to clarify the definition of amenity=taxi as only > applying to motorcars, then try to propose the tag again? > > 3) Propose amenity=ojek and just hold the vote in the Indonesian community, > like how the Japanese mapper community proposes locally-relevant > definitions? > > 4) Give up on mapping things which are not found in western Europe, and > recognize that this is in practice a project dominated by > English/German/American culture, which will not accept new ideas which were > not invented in the West? > > -- Joseph Eisenberg > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
