On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Brian Quinion > <openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk> wrote: >> >> >> Discussing this for a day on the Tagging list is not enough for you to >> >> make >> >> this change. >> > >> > How much time should it take? I didn't really set a dead line but was >> > trying to get comments on the idea... >> >> A change that breaks every editor / renderer / search & data user ? > > I don't understand this argument. Doesn't every tag change anywhere "break > every editor/renderer/search/data user" whether or not you think it is > correct? > John has just as much right to go change all the amenity= tags to something > more specific as you do to keep them the same. Data consumers of all kinds > need to accept both kinds of changes.
No. Adding a new type tag just doesn't work yet. Replacing an existing tag takes something that worked and stops is working (hence breaks). Changing tags in a sensible way is hard - which is why it happens so rarely. There is no way that OSM can be taken seriously as a data source if we just randomly switch tags without giving data users adequate time to respond. As to John's edits being equally valid. Also no - that like saying that my deleting every park or retagging every park 'fish=yes' is equally valid. Some edits make the data better - some make it worse. -- Brian _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
