As mentioned, I plan to significantly shorten the "Keep the history" section, with a link to the longer version at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Keep_the_history instead.
I would probably support shortening the page even further, but I've already had several edits reverted by other users who are in favor of including various sections. On 7/4/19, Yves <yve...@mailbox.org> wrote: > Hmm... I would be all in favor of extending the See also... section and > shorten drastically the page to keep it simple. > Some of the good practices there are second order, don't you think? > Keeping history compared to Tag for the renderer, for example. > Yves > > Le 4 juillet 2019 05:53:23 GMT+02:00, Joseph Eisenberg > <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> a écrit : >>I've reordered and reworded several sections of the Good practice >>page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice >> >>The page had grown over the years from 6 or 7 initial sections: >>(First verion of page in 2008 >>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Good_practice&oldid=86242) >> >>1) Don't map for the renderer >>2) One feature, one OSM-object >>3) Keep straight ways straight >>4) Map what's on the ground >>5)a) Don't remove tags you don't understand >> b) Document your custom-tags >>6) Do correct errors >> >>Now there were 22 different sections, several added this past year >>without discussion, and they were not organized: >>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Good_practice&oldid=1861565 >> >>I've reordered and categorized these sections under 7 main headings: >> >>1 Do correct errors >>2 Verifiability (+Map what's on the ground, Don't map: historic >>events, temporary features, local legislation etc) >>3 Don't map for the renderer (+ Don't misuse name tag) >>4 Good changeset comments (+Keep the history) >>5 One feature, one OSM element >>6 Editing Standards: (Align aerial imagery before tracing, Do not >>trace from outdated imagery... Keep straight ways straight ... Mark >>estimations with FIXME ... etc.) >>7 Document your custom-tags (Don't remove tags that you don't >>understand... >> >>I've made some wording changes for more consistent and concise style, >>and removed some examples (eg abandoned railways) >> >>I've removed 2 sections added in the past year: >> >>"Don't map insignificant, perishable and mobile objects" >>- this section duplicated information in the exiting heading about >>temporary features >> >>"Don't censor anything existing in reality for any reason. Avoid >>interpolations if there is sufficient imagery." >>- This seems redundant and the part about censoring data isn't >>completely correct. We don't add personal info about who lives in a >>private house, for example. >> >>While I haven't done this yet, I would also recommend moving the long >>details about "Keep the history", involving how to use specific >>editors and checking history in certain editors, along with the >>section "Check the history of important objects" which duplicates >>advice in the Aerial Imagery section, to a new page, with a link: >>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Keep_the_history >> >>Joseph Eisenberg, User:Jeisenbe >> >>_______________________________________________ >>talk mailing list >>talk@openstreetmap.org >>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
