To be prescriptive, the best way is to make a proposal, discuss it, and vote on it.
While this is usually done on the international Tagging mailing list, I've seen that the Japanese community has done formal proposals to discuss how a tag should be used in Japan specifically. We could consider something like that if we want to suggest a better way to define highway=trunk in the USA, especially since this tag is used several different ways, in different countries currently. -Joseph On 8/30/19, stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > On August 29, 2019 at 8:08:08 AM PDT, Bradley White > <theangrytom...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm on the same page with Steve that describing how tagging currently *is* >> used and >> debating over how tagging might be better used, should be kept separate. > > Kind of you to say so. I (and others) often find it useful to distinguish > these as "descriptive" (how tagging IS used/done) vs. "prescriptive" (how > tagging SHOULD BE used/done). Sometimes in the wiki, sometimes in talk. > > Often, it is helpful to be DEscriptive, as in "this is what we do (now)." > Much less often, and best when this is made quite clear, it MIGHT be helpful > to be PREscriptive, though let's be careful how we "prescribe" how "this is > how it ought to be." > > SteveA > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
