On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:31:04 +0100 Matthijs Melissen <i...@matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote:
> On 28 January 2016 at 20:16, David Marchal <pene...@live.fr> wrote: > > 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? > > I don't think this has ever been formally decided. > > Personally I am of the opinion that the editor software, and to a > lesser extent the main data consumer software such as > openstreetmap-carto, has way to much power over tagging standards. I > would be in favour of giving more power to the community, and I think > editor/data consumer software should be encouraged to follow the > standards agreed by the community. > > Often the counterargument is given that only a handful of people vote > on proposals, but I don't think that's a good argument. Everybody > *can* join in the discussion and the votes if they want to. Apparently > the people who don't are not interested, or perhaps they trust the > regular crowd to make decisions for them. Having the power only in the > hands of the few people that control the major editors and renderers > is no good idea, in my opinion. I therefore think that we as a > community should ask that everybody involved SHOULD follow the voting > results. Whenever it is possible and reasonable I prefer to follow wiki recommendations. Whenever I notice that wiki and what I consider reasonable to mismatch I am trying to remove this mismatch (either by editing wiki or by changing my opinion). Whenever I encounter mismatch between wiki & tagging or software I attempt to fix it - by creating issues/PRs or editing OSM data or by changing wiki. Complaining that wiki is wrong is not useful - it is wiki, change it. In some cases opinions are divided and wiki should contain description of that controversy. Wiki + taginfo are documentation of tagging schemes - and people refusing/forgetting to document their tagging schemes should not be surprised that data consumers follow either wiki documentation or their own ideas. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk