<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 12:04 AM Stefan Tauner <<a href="mailto:stefan.tauner@gmx.at">stefan.tauner@gmx.at</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
I think OSM falls for this hen and egg problem since its infancy. In<br>
the beginning this was not too bad bad and superior tags had a realistic<br>
opportunity to get adopted even if the existing ones were widely<br>
used. I don't think there has been any chance to do that for a while.<br>
How could that possibly work today?<br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
But let's suppose that we discuss this enough so that we get enough<br>
votes together. What then? Getting everybody outside this relatively<br>
small party of tagging contributors in the same boat including all the<br>
software devs, companies and sometimes stubborn private mappers is a<br>
major effort that basically requires a completely separate tagging<br>
scheme to remain backward compatible.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yup, I think you've hit the nail on the head.</div><div><br></div><div>IMO, the only way this could be solved is with a technical solution. There would need to be a system of backwards compatibility in which existing clients can continue to access the data using legacy tagging schemes, with a stated end of life date, and clients could choose to upgrade on their own timeline to the newer scheme. This implies a layer of translation that would need to exist between the underlying data and what is actually presented to the user. Now obviously this is glossing over A LOT of technical details about all of the tools in the ecosystem and how users interact with the data. But I don't see any other way we could have a systematic mechanism for tagging standardization (if indeed the community even desires it) without some kind of backwards compatibility translation layer.</div><div><br></div></div></div>