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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/02/19 07:59, Paul Allen wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 20:50, Kevin Kenny <<a
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The tagging mailing list discusses six alternative ways to
represent<br>
the proposed feature. Someone argues that betas don't
actually exist.<br>
Someone else insists that betas are really just another kind
of bees.<br>
A third person insists that there's no way to be certain in
the field<br>
that what you're looking at is a beta, so the proposal
should fail on<br>
verifiability. Another insists that before betas can be
mapped, we<br>
need a whole taxonomy of Greek letters, and the discussion
rapidly<br>
devolves into a long digression about whether θ and ϑ are
really the<br>
same letter because one is printed and the other is cursive.<br>
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<div>That's a very idealized description of the process. It
normally doesn't work that well.</div>
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Agreed. <br>
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The proposal precess is c<span class="st">onfronting and in most
cases less than helpfull. <br>
A simple question of how to map a tree area goes off for how many
responses .. demonstrating a disregard for the poster. <br>
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And now there is a move not to let people document the tag they
create!<br>
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This can result in mappers creating tags, as they should and are
'allowed', but being unable to document them, <br>
so they cannot map things effectively because they cannot
communicate what they are mapping... so they simply leave OSM. <br>
It also results in tags with a lot of use .. but not documented so
no one knows what they are .. <br>
and they could now well be not what was indented by the original
mappers. <br>
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I would advise anyone - if you make a new tag, document it!<br>
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