Frederik Ramm writes: > Because the leader is the intellectual visionary and the sheep cannot be > expected to have the information or the intellectual capacity to > understand.
I'm pretty sure you've gone off into the weeds, Frederick. Leadership and followership in a voluntary organization is not a question of Fuhrer and sheep. > I think that if some people devised a set of tagging rules or > recommendations and laid it out in a structured way, including rules on > how to create, discuss, amend the definitions, there would really be > demand for that inside OSM. Well, I've asked SteveC to lend his moral weight to this effort, and he's said (not a direct quote) "No way, when I do that, people call me evil." What's to stop the same people from calling the committee members evil? When you call your leaders "evil", you end up with only leaders who don't mind being called evil. Are those the kind of leaders you want? -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-323-1241 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk