<div dir="auto">The statement I disagree with is that "We shouldn’t be in a situation where there is no approved way to map a mapable feature just because the community doesn’t agree completely on how to map it."<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nobody needs approval to map anything in OSM, so approval only really matters when there is a conflict, and I agree that conflicts are better resolved by discussion and consensus (with confirmation by the yes/no vote) than by voting between competing options. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If a stalled discussion means that multiple tags coexist, that's ok by me - clearly the stakes weren't high enough in that case for compromise to achieve coherence to be valued over the "right" tag...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, 11:09 am stevea, <<a href="mailto:steveaOSM@softworkers.com">steveaOSM@softworkers.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Majorities can be built with reason and well-written proposals. They really can. This is where and when OSM can be at its best.<br>
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Am I saying "rig an election" or "throw votes in an unethical manner"? Of course not. I'm talking about building real grass-roots support for good ideas that are well-stated and agreeable. That actually happens. And when it does, good for us.<br>
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SteveA<br>
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