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

[Erik Johansson]

COn Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> 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.

Real mappers don't document; their tags are enough.  Wannabe mappers
read documentation and follow templates. So how should you become a
mapper if there is no documentation. There is a lack of people who are
willing to write something on the wiki, not too many.

Sure the wiki doesn't really define the database, it tells people how
to tag stuff and that is a lot more important than anything else.

BTW, This is still on dev because dev is where the wiki FUD flows deepest.

Regards Erik.