Hi John, On 06/11/2014 05:12 AM, John Baker wrote: > Your suggestion that you should message everyone worldwide (what in > every language?!) for what is often a typo or understanding of existing > tags is not practical.
There are some - very few indeed - cases where a fix is really obvious. Sadly, in almost every case, people start with fixing the obious, and once they're done with that, they change things that are far from obvious (like for example, replacing every occurrence of name=McDonalds with name=McDonald's, replacing landuse=wood with natural=wood, or changing a gas station with attached convenience store to a convenience store with attached gas station). The line is very thin and the guidelines currently err on the side of caution. > a) that is ridiculously stupid. > b) it takes a ridiculous amount of time. > c) people just ignore it and do it anyway. They do it all the time. I > expect one of the only reason you actually noticed this is the large > edit boxes in the history. The guidelines make sure you don't make stupid mass changes (because the guidelines give others a chance to detect the problem beforehand). If you ignore the guidelines and nobody complains - fine. But if somebody complains then you having ignored the guidelines is reason enough to revert your edit, and we don't have to start a big discussion about whether your edits made sense or not. > Unless the guidelines change to be more realistic for mechanical edits I > don't see this changing. I don't see why we should weaken the guidelines to allow everyone to automatically "fix" things as they see fit. > Oh as I am ranting about tagging some people are using OSM as they own > private database adding tags just for them. Yes, in fact we used to explicitly recommend that people use their user name, a colon, and their own key name to distinguish special private tags from public ones. I am not sure if these recommendations still exist on the Wiki but it used to be common practice. > Maybe that is behaviour you are > really wanting to protect by your stance. Maybe just draw a deep breath and calm down ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
