[Tagging] office=*

[John Smith]

On 29 July 2010 15:46, Tobias Knerr <osm at tobias-knerr.de> wrote:
> Wiki voting can be a means to document that the discussion actually
> generated consensus. After a successful discussion, it's merely a
> formality, but it demonstrates the consensus to those who haven't
> participated in the discussions preceding it.

The mailing lists have archives, and imho mailing lists are much more
suitable than a wiki for discussions...

> Looking at existing solutions first, but intentionally proposing an
> alternative way of doing something that would replace or augment the
> existing solution is a different issue - and has to be an option
> regardless of the process (or lack thereof) for defining tagging.

There is 2 types of "new" tags effectively, those that would incur
major changes, eg highway=path and those that don't eg shop=toy

There needs to be a lot more scrutiny put on the first type than the second...