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<div style="16px" text-align="left">28 Jul 2019, 11:12 by osm@imagico.de:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">On Saturday 27 July 2019, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Please take a minute to review the new page<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Approval_status">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Approval_status</a><br></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Thanks for creating it and submitting it for a review!<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">A bit of a general remark here - the OSM wiki has for quite some time <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">been torn between being an attempt to document the established mapping <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">practice (i.e. what tags actually mean based on how they are used) and <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">being a way to tell mappers what tags are supposed to mean in the <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">opinion of those editing the wiki.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">I edited Deprecated features page to be more explicit that<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">wiki editors are documenting tagging situations, rather than ordering mappers<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">and developers how this should be used<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">See<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Deprecated_features&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=1882964&oldid=1820343">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Deprecated_features&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=1882964&oldid=1820343</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">for my changes, feedback is welcomed.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">The way you present this status concept is in support of the latter - in <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">particular your use of the term "recommended" on status values that do <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">not represent a formal proposal status (that <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">is 'draft', 'proposed', 'voting', 'approved' and 'rejected') ultimately <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">means recommended by those who have dominance over editing the wiki.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">I made some small changes, see<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Approval_status&type=revision&diff=1882980&oldid=1882393">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Approval_status&type=revision&diff=1882980&oldid=1882393</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div> </body>
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