[Tagging] What's a power=station?
Liz
edodd at billiau.net
Tue Jan 19 07:03:37 GMT 2010
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> d) I don't think it's a good idea to change a tag description two years
> after it was documented, because the wording is "slightly" wrong for
> some parts of the english speaking world. Because doing so is an
> annoyance for anyone involved and the wording will always be slightly
> wrong for someone. Not to mention that a lot of people won't
> notice/ignore any changes here, as these definitions are "old enough" in
> OSM terms. My approach: Stick to the wiki definitions even if you don't
> like it and go on mapping :-)
>
We need to be able to say "a mistake has been made, these tags need revision"
and do something about mistakes.
If we don't have a process for dealing with errors in tag choice and
translation we will have a massive pile of junk data (and then no-one will
care about the licence at all).
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