Hi!
JohnSmitty wrote: > > NopMap is making the assertion that tags can't be altered once they > start being used, but this isn't the case since abutters etc have > already been deprecated in favour of other mapping methods/techniques. > No. I am making the assertion that the most important problems cannot be solved by mass retagging, thus contradicting JohnSmittys earlier statement that the "lack of a mass retagging policy was the weakness" rather than the lack of an approval process. You can only retag multiple used tags with the same meaning. This is the simple case. But you cannot retag a single tag with multiple used meanings. This is the real problem we are having. A working approval process would preserve the meaning of tags. Renaming already ambiguous tags is not helpful in any way. I was further making the assertion that "Once an information is lost, it remains lost" is a basic principle of information technology rather than a policy or an opinion. bye Nop -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/paths-and-roads-and-approval-oh-my-tp5913440p5921116.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk