[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - power generator rationalisation

[Tom Chance]

On 8 September 2010 11:33, André Riedel <riedel.andre at gmail.com> wrote:

> But your proposal is not a small change of the whole power=generator
> system. A change of tagging for example a tidal power plant shoud not
> be done every month. So it would be great if you can stop your
> fighting to push the proposal through the overall process within three
> weeks. As you already mentioned you do not have the knowledge for all
> power plant types, me too, but I think OSM have the man power to solve
> this issue but need some time.
>

André, you are the only person who has consistently argued against this
proposal on this mailing list. I am hardly "fighting to push the proposal
through". The vote is overwhelmingly in favour. Some of the few 'oppose'
voters seem not to have even read the proposal, judging by their comments.

I know enough about power/energy generation to feel confident that this
proposal is a considerable improvement on the current tagging schema, and is
sufficiently flexible to allow further tagging detail without needing to
deprecate any of the proposed keys and values. I have developed it with a
number of contributors to this mailing list, to the wiki, and with fellow
energy experts.

Rather than waiting months to get from 90% of possible detail to 99%, I
would rather get this basic change through and open the way for others to
add further detail.


> In my opinion everybody voting yes, wants an easy to use tagging
> scheme with the ability for future extension. (Only) On the first view
> the current proposal looks applicable.
>

I think you're right - people voting yes to this proposal see that it is an
improvement on the current schema, that it would be easy to use for those
interested in this level of detail, and that it offers flexibility to expand
in the future.

Tom

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