On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Nic Roets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > According to the wiki redirects, barrier=gate is replacing highway=gate. > > According to tagwatch, the latter is 10 times more popular than the > former. > > Yes, because the barrier=gate people decided it makes more sense. I'm > not sure a wiki redirect is the correct way of going about it... but > they're essentially the same thing. Obviously highway=gate has been > around much longer. > > > > > Is the community OK with this ? > > Meh. > > > If yes, why aren't we running a bot to perform the changes ? > > Because that would imply the One True Way is to tag gates with > barrier=gate. Because it would break every existing gate out there > relying on a "legacy" renderer. To get 1/10th already suggest to me > shenanigans though. > It's not completely impossible to have two tags for the same thing you > know. Just leave it be. > > Dave > This is one of the major problems with the OSM community. Someone proposes or just starts using a particular tagging scheme which has some flaws. When those flaws are pointed out, the OSM pragmatists just say "Oh, we can always change it later. It's a Wiki, after all." But the truth is, you can't change it, because when someone does come up with an alternative tagging scheme (like barrier= or path= or crossing=) that shows some merit over the original, those same pragmatists come back and say "What!? That tag is wrong/invalid/stupid because the database already has ten thousand entries of X. And besides, you'll break everything!" Karl
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