[Tagging] Announce: New #osm-tagging dedicated IRC chat on oftc.net

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would calling it 'Open Map Features' make it a bit more clear for everyone?
> As this IRC chat room can cover more general chat (about map features)
> so it will attract the wider geo community to participate.

Sam,

Will you just be honest with people?

You want a new list because you want to create a tagging system for the forks.

Whatever my personal feelings on the forks are, I think you owe it to
the people to just be honest with your intentions. If you want to
fork, fork, and be decisive and proud of your decision.

What irks me is how you and some of the other forkers are creating
little staw men arguments "Wouldn't it be nice if OSM provided a way
to automatically sync all the usernames and passwords onto another
system?" and your "Wouldn't it be nice if all the tags were
'centralized'?" (ie you want the tools and mapnik stylesheets OSM
developed to work on your maps).

Please just start being honest with people.

- Serge