On 28/01/2016 19:16, David Marchal wrote:
Hello, there.
On a GitHub issue
(https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2027#issuecomment-174443685),
I've been told that Wiki tagging votes are only advisory and that the
community is only invited, neither required nor recommended, to follow
them. As I understand this comment, the community MAY follow the Wiki
tagging or votes, it does not SHOULD nor MUST follow them. I was under
the impression that the community at least SHOULD apply the votes
results, MUST looking unenforceable due to the free tagging principle.
Am I wrong on that? What is the applicability of the Wiki content?
What are you going to do when a new mapper comes along and adds a tag
that they "SHOULD NOT"? They won't have read the wiki, because no-one*
does. Are you going to send the wiki police around and tell them to
delete the offending tag with no other sudden movements? :-)
More seriously, any dataset that has no rules enforced at the API level
must be assumed to have data in it that doesn't meet a specification
that is written down somewhere, but not enforced. Someone wrote that
wiki page long ago but didn't actually do anything else, presumably
expecting the magic code and project management fairies to look after
all the other changes that they expected to happen.
Cheers,
Andy (SomeoneElse)
* to a reasonable approximation across all mappers in the project, just
like "no-one" reads mailing lists or forums.
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