Lesi writes: > If you think voting is silly, why do you not change the procedure > of approving new features in the wiki?
Because some people think that we should vote, and would be upset if I removed the voting mechanism. > Based on what facts a feature will be approved then. Well, the http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features page claims two ends for the result of voting: first, that something will be listed on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_features, and second, that once voted on, it will be a standard way to tag map features. Rule #2: before setting out a solution you should decide what problem you are trying to solve. Should Map_features contain a link to every map feature? Should we be directing people towards mapping in certain ways? Or should we let people map however they want as long as they document their method? > Or do you want to abolish proposed features completely? Yes. If you want a certain Key or Tag to mean a certain thing, then just start using it that way AND document it in the wiki. If it's already documented with a different meaning, then you must MUST not change that documentation. Instead, use a similar but different Key or Tag and create a wikilink from the one you'd like to use to the different one. What's important is that the meaning of everything in the database is documented. By having two sources of meanings (wiki/ and wiki/Proposed_features/) people have to look in two places to find documentation. Undocumented mapping is almost completely worthless except to say "Hey there's something interesting here, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what it is from the frimfraz=pirkle OSM tagging. What the hell is a pirkle anyway??" -- --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
