<div dir="ltr"><div>Note also massive influence of JOSM validator and other<br></div>rule-checker tools.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-01-16 13:14 GMT+01:00 moltonel 3x Combo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moltonel@gmail.com" target="_blank">moltonel@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 16/01/2015, Pieren <<a href="mailto:pieren3@gmail.com">pieren3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
Historical contributors and leaders will tell you that there is no<br>
> "official committee" in OSM. But, to be a litle provocative, I would<br>
> say we already have two committees for tagging scheme:<br>
> - the JOSM presets maintainers<br>
> - the DWG<br>
<br>
</span>AFAIK the DWG's influence on tags is fairly light. But all the editors<br>
(not just josm), the renderings (especially the "default" mapnik one,<br>
but also the specialized 3d and indoor ones), the search engines<br>
(Nominatim), the routers (OSRM) all carry a lot of weight. Anybody<br>
spending time on the wiki and mailing lists (and to a lesser degree<br>
also on forum, irc, help, etc) carry some weight too.<br>
<br>
Of course not everybody has the same weight... But that crowd is<br>
varied enough that there's IMHO no reason to fear one overreaching<br>
commitee.<br>
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