[OSM-dev] The wiki defines the database

[Erik Johansson]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> Ben Supnik wrote:
>
>> As a new user, my source for answers is going to be:
>>
>> 1. What the tools do/make easy.  If potlatch gave me a red flag and said
>> "you must add tag X before continuing", I would have done it. :-)
>>
>> 2. What is in the map _locally_ (in the spatial sense).
>>
>> 3. What the Wiki says.
>>
>> 4. What is in the map globally.
>>
>> To put it simply: to me it seems crazy to not have emerging data
>> standards from the map documented on the Wiki.
>
> I don't think anybody disagrees with that - the problem comes when the
> standards are created on the wiki rather than emerging from the map and
> being documented on the wiki.

I can agree that people changing already used standards on the wiki
can be interesting. But if someone documents something on the wiki and
says that is a standard is that really a problem, as long as there is
nothing there at the moment?

Just one occurrence in the database with a good doc is 10 times better
than 1400 tags in the db and no doc.

R /Erik