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<p>On 2018-06-10 01:30, Warin wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">One of the problem is that these main tags don't come through the tagging group .. they arrive through common use that sees a demand and satisfies it.</span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">A problem with that is that the initial users see only their local issues and don't see it on a global scale ..</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">so it gets used in ways that were not part of the initial use/intent.</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Tight definitions are hard to do when you only see what you are wanting to map, not seeing the wider picture.</span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Thus we have a mess to fix up.</span></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Absolutely agree. Inherent in this is the fact that sometimes we go down a path with tagging which, with hindsight, proves to be "wrong," for example</span></div>
<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">because it is insufficiently flexible or based on a misunderstanding of a term (given that many mappers use English as a second language). When such a</span></div>
<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">situation arises we must be bold enough to acknowledge that the original tagging should be replaced with new tagging. This is not an unexpected,</span></div>
<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">unwanted situation - it should be a mainstream activity to apply more recent thinking to outdated tagging. It should not cost so much energy to make</span></div>
<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">the case for this. Compare it with allowing for refactoring and reworking in an Agile project - it is not a bad thing, it is a fact of life. Fail fast</span></div>
<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">and often - that leads to progress in the end.</span></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Colin</span></div>
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