Now we have a problem. Just after I started the voting, several issues came up on both the hungarian OSM list and on the discussion page of the proposal. The most severe one is that the key/value is ambiguous. People could use it for ticket punching machine for public transport, etc., which is not intended. Also I realised that stamps are not the only checking methods. It occured me that I know about a tourism movement in Hungary where the validation is through markings, so one have to write down the simple pattern of the markings in your brochure. Also there are newly introduced electronic checkpoints (see Discussion Page).<br>
<br>So key/value should be tourism=hiking_checkpoint instead of stamping_point. A new key should be introduced for the checkpoint type (checkpoint_type=stamp; marking; electronic, any other I can't imagine).<br><br>Also the name tag is ambiguous. It's not clear if it's the name of the place where it is located or the name of the tourism movement or both. So I should emphasize that the name tag is for the name of the place (name of the pub, church or the name of the mountain) and I should introduce a new key, tourism_movement (e.g. Countrywide Blue Tour; El Camino de Santiago, <a href="http://trail-blaze.com">trail-blaze.com</a>).<br>
<br>What is the right process now? Can I stop the voting process and move the proposal to the abandoned ones or should I wait until it ends? Can I change my vote to no and start a new proposal from scratch right now? I assume I can't rename it and change the properties I mentioned above.<br>
<br>I'm in a hurry now because in a little bit more than two weeks I planned a long journey visiting many stamping points. I mean hiking checkpoints. :) And I'd like to start the new voting before that.<br><br>I'm sorry for all this but tagging life is very ambiguous. :)<br>
<br>regards<br>Zsolt<br>Herrbert74<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Zsolt Bertalan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:herrbert74@gmail.com">herrbert74@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi all,<br><br>voting is now open for my proposal:<br><br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/stamping_point" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/stamping_point</a><br>
<br>regards<br>
Zsolt<br>Herrbert74<br>
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