<html><head></head><body>Hmm... I would be all in favor of extending the See also... section and shorten drastically the page to keep it simple.<br>Some of the good practices there are second order, don't you think?<br>Keeping history compared to Tag for the renderer, for example.<br>Yves <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Le 4 juillet 2019 05:53:23 GMT+02:00, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com> a écrit :<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">I've reordered and reworded several sections of the Good practice<br>page: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice</a><br><br>The page had grown over the years from 6 or 7 initial sections:<br>(First verion of page in 2008<br><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Good_practice&oldid=86242)">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Good_practice&oldid=86242)</a><br><br>1) Don't map for the renderer<br>2) One feature, one OSM-object<br>3) Keep straight ways straight<br>4) Map what's on the ground<br>5)a) Don't remove tags you don't understand<br> b) Document your custom-tags<br>6) Do correct errors<br><br>Now there were 22 different sections, several added this past year<br>without discussion, and they were not organized:<br><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Good_practice&oldid=1861565">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Good_practice&oldid=1861565</a><br><br>I've reordered and categorized these sections under 7 main headings:<br><br>1 Do correct errors<br>2 Verifiability (+Map what's on the ground, Don't map: historic<br>events, temporary features, local legislation etc)<br>3 Don't map for the renderer (+ Don't misuse name tag)<br>4 Good changeset comments (+Keep the history)<br>5 One feature, one OSM element<br>6 Editing Standards: (Align aerial imagery before tracing, Do not<br>trace from outdated imagery... Keep straight ways straight ... Mark<br>estimations with FIXME ... etc.)<br>7 Document your custom-tags (Don't remove tags that you don't understand...<br><br>I've made some wording changes for more consistent and concise style,<br>and removed some examples (eg abandoned railways)<br><br>I've removed 2 sections added in the past year:<br><br>"Don't map insignificant, perishable and mobile objects"<br>- this section duplicated information in the exiting heading about<br>temporary features<br><br>"Don't censor anything existing in reality for any reason. Avoid<br>interpolations if there is sufficient imagery."<br>- This seems redundant and the part about censoring data isn't<br>completely correct. We don't add personal info about who lives in a<br>private house, for example.<br><br>While I haven't done this yet, I would also recommend moving the long<br>details about "Keep the history", involving how to use specific<br>editors and checking history in certain editors, along with the<br>section "Check the history of important objects" which duplicates<br>advice in the Aerial Imagery section, to a new page, with a link:<br><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Keep_the_history">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Keep_the_history</a><br><br>Joseph Eisenberg, User:Jeisenbe<hr>talk mailing list<br>talk@openstreetmap.org<br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>