On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:25 PM, David Earl <da...@frankieandshadow.com> wrote: >> >> If you don't care, fine. But please don't suggest things that you >> admit aren't good solutions. > > I'm not suggesting it - that's the way it already is.
You said "Just treat them as synonyms". It sounded like a suggestion to me. > And I think the discussion of committees to decide or better voting is a > hiding to nothing so long as a sizeable proportion of the community doesn't > believe in it, as they'll just carry on doing what they've always done. > They've stopped even contributing to these discussions, they just get on > with it. You're forgetting about the people who have yet to start mapping (who will outnumber the 150,000 current members within, say, a year?! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Statistics). I know the first thing I did when I started was to visit the map features wiki page. That page is important. And as Ciaran points out, whether we like it or not, editor presets are also important. > If we want OSM to be adopted at the data level, we have to stop changing > tags because people think they look prettier. It's like MS changing the file > format for Word with no compatibility support - a sure fire way to lose > customers. Backward compatibility hasn't been too much of an issue within a > closed community of consumer tools, but that's changing and if we don't take > backward compatibility seriously, we'll end up staying just a closed > community. > > And before someone says "but that means you can never change anything" I'm > not saying that, merely that it needs a much less casual approach to > changing things, especially for aesthetic reasons which this essentially is, > than dealing with new ones which can be dealt with more freely. So is your point: "we need a much less casual approach to changing things for aesthetic reasons"? What approach would you suggest? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
