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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Warin, may I please
remind you that in your message of 31 October you were the
mapper who expressed great concern about loss of data?</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/13/2018 2:37 AM, Colin Smale
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<p>On 2018-11-12 22:00, Warin wrote:</p>
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#1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">Not contrived at all in these
days of tight budgets. I see no reason the inverse would not
work. I'll add it.</blockquote>
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I think there are too many things in the proposal. Keep it
simple. Yes the 'extras' might sound nice but they add
complexity and each one is a point that can lead to someone
objecting to that specific thing and leading to enough no votes
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<p>At moments like this I like to invoke one of my heroes: Albert
Einstein. One famous saying attributed to him is: As simple as
possible, but no simpler.</p>
<p>If you simplify complex realities too much, you lose valuable
detail. If it's complex, it's complex. If you want to leave out
a level of detail, such as being able to distinguish between the
different types of services provided on behalf of multiple
"tenant" countries in a diplomatic mission, then so be it, but
let's discuss whether it is desirable to leave that out, and
whether the resultant ambiguity is acceptable. Data modelling
means constructing an approximation to reality, and is all about
what details to keep in and what to leave out. Once it is left
out, it cannot be reconstructed from the rest of the data. (If
it can, your data model is not properly normalised.)</p>
<p>If OSM is being limited to being suboptimal because of politics
and the inability to reach consensus, I would rather the system
was fixed instead of condemning the whole business to eternal
mediocrity.</p>
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