On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:50:11 +0000 Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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? :-) In most cases - this tag will not be rendered/processed/accepted by data consumers and hopefully mapper will notice that something is wrong and investigate. In many cases it will happen in editor itself - for example natural=tree in JOSM will result in a nice icon, natural=treee will not, At least some editors (like JOSM) have validator that will complain. > 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. OSM database will always have some minor amount of complete junk ([surface=paved;unpaved] or [surface=paved; paved; unpaved; unpaved] or [surface=paved; unpaved; unpaved; unpaved; unpaved; unpaved; unpaved; unpaved; paved; unpaved; paved; unpaved; unpaved; unpaved; paved; paved; paved] - see http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org//search?q=surface%3Dpaved%3Bunpaved ). That is not a major problem, and this thread is about another topic - whatever results of discussion/voting on wiki should have impact on editing software, map styles and editors (the same arguments may be applied to discussion on tagging mailing list). _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
