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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 12, 2021, 21:35 by tomasstraupis@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>2021-02-12, pn, 20:04 Colin Smale rašė:<br></div><blockquote>I am not talking about changes to the tagging, but a review of the governance of the tagging.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is of utter importance as currently governance is a total mess:<br></div><div> * no way to decide (and therefore some<br></div><div>profane/pointless/unrepresentative wiki-"votings" exist)<br></div></blockquote><div>Like it or not, but wiki voting disliked by you and tagging mailing list <br></div><div>discussions and tagging discussions happening elsewhere and tangle of<br></div><div>mappers, validators, editors are how we decide things<br></div><div>(for vast majority of tagging decisions are clear with some problematic<br></div><div>cases and aspects)<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div> * no way to enforce (several iD coders decide themselves what is a<br></div><div>"correct" tagging irrespective of mapper community)<br></div><div><br></div><div> And I would say governance is the FIRST thing which needs to be<br></div><div>fixed because nothing can be fixed without it - there is currently NO<br></div><div>OWNER of OpenStreetMap.<br></div></blockquote><div>If OSM would be owned/ruled/controlled by one specific entity I<br></div><div>would be not contributing to it.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am also deeply skeptical about idea that making someone<br></div><div>Imperator and Ruler of Tagging would improve situation<br></div><div>(even attempting that would have massively negative effects).<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have seen some people attempting to do this on smaller or larger scale<br></div><div>(including myself, on very minor issues where I was fortunately<br></div><div>stopped), you mention another case that had worse fallout and<br></div><div>is still not entirely resolved.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For me "there is currently NO OWNER of OpenStreetMap" is a big plus<br></div><div>and feature, and I would oppose anyone trying to change that.<br></div> </body>
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