[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Map features discussion & voting

[Shaun McDonald]

On 12 Jun 2007, at 00:42, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:

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> Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
>> 2) A poll feature/survey in the wiki or other website. Similarly a  
>> mail
>> is sent to the mailing lists and people click on one of two links in
>> order to vote (and enter the OSM username).
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> Personally I'd like it integrated in the main rails site itself, and
> connected to a system that rejects tags and values that don't match.
> People would still be able to put tags in for testing, or for their  
> own
> purposes, but only with a prefix e.g. test: for a general free-for-all
> testing / place to put things while you don't know what their called,
> and people would be able to register their own prefixes for whatever
> reason, and make they either free-for-alls or restricted.
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This goes against the whole idea of OSM and entering whatever tags  
you like. What you need is a way to flag these as possible errors  
like a spell check in a word processor. I would even be happy to go  
as far as to add an auto-correct functionality. This however probably  
would need to be done at the editor end.

Shaun

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