[OSM-dev] The wiki defines the database

[Ben Supnik]

Hi Chris,

Chris Jones wrote:
> Surely the only voting process that carries any weight in the long  
> run is people actually using a given key/value pair in the database...

If the long run building of the map is done following guidelinse posted 
by the wiki docs in the short run, then I would say that the wiki matters.

In our case, we have users who will want to know "how do we do this" 
(this being add data to OSM such that the applications they care about 
will be able to use it).

So as an author of a client app I can either:

- Let them enter whatever they want and try to make sense of it later or
- Provide some guidance on the wiki and then compare that to actual use.

In other words, the wiki strikes me as a way for app developers and map 
makers to communicate ahead of time, saving a lot of potential waste.

cheers
ben


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