On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:59:00 +0100 Andreas Goss <andi...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Honestly the people supporting this contact: tag are annoying me more > and more. FWIW I don't usually map contact related tags except for "website" which I use without the prefix (out of habit rather than merit). > They try to push that tag everywhere even when the tag without the > prefix is used 10x more. This is the ad populum fallacy. Any attempt to improve a tagging scheme will always start out being numerically weaker regardless of the merit of the proposal. To further confuse things there are people like myself who will sometimes tag *both* schemes because although we see the need for change we understand that there is a lot invested in the existing scheme. I'm not saying that established convention is not important, just that raw numbers shouldn't be the be-all and end-all when it comes to tagging. > The try to make the Wiki page sound like they > are still present more often in the database. Put it on the > MapFeatures Page. On shop/craft Wiki pages they try to push it as > supplementary tags. Another guy does a mass edit for all social media > tags and puts the contact: prefix in front of it (still not sure all > facebook tags have been reverted). > > Is there any solution to this? It's really no fun when I come back to > edit a Wiki again and see that it happened again. Especially this > replacing and not even trying to give the user a choice. What about creating a single wiki page that describes both schemes and provides a brief description of the pros and cons of each one? Once this is done other wiki pages can link to it and mappers can decide for themselves which is the most appropriate. -- Regards, Andy Street _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
