Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Map Features is a documentation of what is used, not of what someone > thinks should be used.
The first paragraph on Map Features says it is "a core recommended feature set and corresponding tags", and to me a recommendation is something that should be followed (at least in the view of its author). Nothing on Map Features says that it is a list of commonly used tags. Instead, it is my understanding that there are a couple of people who decide through voting what to put on Map Features. > > There is a rather objective basis for what is used - the planet file. > There is no objective basis for what "should" be used - everybody has > their own ideas. These things form slowly; someone documents his idea > somewhere, others talk about it on the lists or forums, with time it > gets adopted by many (or not), and there may come a time when you look > at Map Features and say "hm, this highway=gate is barely used any more, > let's ditch it", and that's fine. But this is something you do "ex > post", not "ex ante", or put another way, Map Features is not a > normative page, it is empirical. I am not advocating for anyone to just go and delete features. I am just saying that if there is a process to add features the same process can be used to remove them. I also think it is confusing if two equivalent tags are recommended for the same thing. If by whatever process it is determined that a new wah of tagging gates is recommended the old tag should point to the new one with the indication that the recommendation has changed. > > We have no mechanism to divide "good" from "bad" ideas. If you start > putting your ideas about what you think is good and "should" be used on > Map Features, then I will start putting mine on there as well, and > everyone else. That's why we don't want to go down this road. (And > before anyone asks, a vote in which 0.01% of mappers participate does > not elevate one idea about what is "good" above hundreds of others.) I agree with you here, but voting seems to be the current practice. Matthias _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
