[OSM-dev] The wiki defines the database

[Matthias Julius]

"Erik Johansson" <erjohan at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Yes, especially if the key/value is not 100% self-explanatory to every
potencial user.  This is the only way to give other people a chance to
find it (besides asking someone who knows about it).  It is a waste of
recources if people are inventing new tags for the same thing just
because they didn't know about the existing one.

Matthias