Jochen Topf said: > >I am sorry if I came across as arrogant or dismissive. This is absolutely not >my intention.
No offence taken. As you say, we are in agreement here, mappers and data consumers must talk and help each other. > >What I was arguing against is somehow feeling >responsible for data users who take our data, never talk to us and then think >it is our job to tell them when something changes. That is how I understood >Rob's argument > Perhaps I misled you as I agree 100% that the relationship has to be two way. I'm just wondering aloud how we can improve out side of that conversation / relationship. As we all know the mailing lists can be quite unfriendly to external parties. It's an interesting question as we need to balance providing data consumers with advanced notice of big changes and still be able to act quickly. My experience with developing tagging schemas is that it helps to slow the process down, giving everyone time to consider the tag and provide comments. I would have liked more involvement from someone who actually uses the data (in this case a Routing service provider) but as you say they have to be willing to join the conversation too. We cannot slow things down too much :-) Best, Rob
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