Talking as a new comer I haven't experienced any long drawn out tag approval process, however I would comment that the whole point of OSM is that you can tag any way you like (or as much as you like).
The main point is that the renderer won't know how to use the odd-ball tags. So in reality it is the people writing the (official) renderer code who decide which 'official' tags OSM is going to support. Also regarding automatically replacing tags, some notice should be given to the 'owner' of the way/node. I'd be mighty pissed if someone did a global search/replace of a tag which broke my custom render code overnight. Mungewell. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
