[OSM-dev] The wiki defines the database (was: relations)

[Richard Fairhurst]

Erik Johansson wrote:

> This is a really naive and contraproductive argument, nothing is black
> and white.  You have to define what it is you are mapping, and you
> don't do that in the database.

Yeah, but therein lies the problem.

The people doing the "defining" are, in many cases, not the ones who  
are doing the mapping. There are plenty of people voting on things  
just because they like voting.

If people refrained from discussing and voting unless they had  
_personally_ come up against the problem that the proposal was aiming  
to solve, I think the process would have a lot more respect.

cheers
Richard