On 25/06/2013 17:22, Jonathan Bennett wrote: > Sorry to be so harsh It's not the first time we welcome researchers on this list in such a bad mood (not necessarily you Jonathan). It's childish. You could start by explaining that the tagging process is complex, is not only happening on the wiki, that not all of them are the result of a consensus, that some of them are raised on foreign countries and extended later to the world (e.g. the "Karlsruhe schema").
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd argue that consensus is formed not from the wiki as much as from > from the editors, and the renderers, and taginfo. You cannot say that. Give me an example where the editors decided how to tag features in the past. By chance, the developers are not trying to impose new tags or changes. They follow what's happening on the tagging list and/or the wiki. And taginfo is just showing stats which can be easily biased by mass imports. > I think it's 3% of OSM users are responsible for 80-something percent of all > OSM data and probable 1% of that 3% is talking about creating, refining or changing tags. Most of the contributors simply don't search too long for a tag definition or a corresponding proposal on the wiki or statistics on taginfo. Most of them will simply not map the feature if if it's not present in the presets and in the map features wiki page. One advise for Andrea: check the osm.org main mailing list and tagging list archives about the "vote" process on the wiki. This will tell you more than anything on the wiki about the process of establishing new tags in OSM. Pieren _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
