Am 02.02.2010 16:02, schrieb Frederik Ramm: > Hi, > > Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> I read very often about this, and am asking myself: why is noone >> proposing / offering such a catalogue? It would be simple as that: set >> up a catalogue with all your definitions and publish it for newbies to >> be used. Oh, and update it say on a daily basis ;-)
My answer (as the maintainer of the JOSM mappaint display, having a frequent look on OSMdoc and tagwatch): This is a *lot* of work. > My answer: Behind every "we need better rules to guide newbies" sits an > ugly "we need rules to force the community to do things in a certain way > and if they don't abide by the rules, we'll simply run a bot over them". Prejudice. > Nobody is truly interested in helping newbies, that's just a fig leaf > for wanting to stamp out creativity and replace it by a fixed rule set > decided by a majority of 10 to 9 wiki fiddlers. Thanks Frederik, for denying everyone elses effort here. Sit back, take a cup of tea and think what you've written here. Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
