[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (Fire Hydrant Extensions)

[Mark Bradley]

> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 11:14:56 +0000
> From: marc marc <marc_marc_irc at hotmail.com>
> To: "tagging at openstreetmap.org" <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (Fire Hydrant
> 	Extensions)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Le 05. 10. 17 à 12:16, Viking a écrit :
> > I really don't understand why so many people oppose this proposal [1]
> > without ever having participated in the discussions
> it is indeed strange that no opponent took the time to say during the RFC arguments
> that are found now during the vote.
> 
> yes the wiki page need a cleaning between the basic tags and the advanced tags. is it
> the role of a tag vote to talk about the layout of the wiki page or should we talk
> about tag changes ?
> imho wiki layout doesn't need a vote, it only need to follow tag meaning
> 
> yes the proposal will change many objects but changing 1k objects or 100k it is the
> same work when updating an app.
> 
> yes it will need a transition period for the few specialized apps to be updated but it is
> not by splitting the proposal tag by tag that it will be better, on the contrary devs will
> have to do x release instead of being able to group them.
> 
> There are also hardly understandable arguments as opposed to the replacement of
> fire_hydrant:position by location since they have the same meaning.
> 
> ihmo removing the namespace when it is useless and the proposed additional (and
> optional) tags are a heavy but coherent and positive set
> 
> Regardless of the outcome of the ongoing vote, I would like to take this opportunity
> to thank you for the time you have devoted to it and for the constructive spirit in the
> search for a concessus.
> 
> I hope that this energy will persist if the current proposal fails due to "voting-only"
> people.
> 
> Regards,
> Marc


I echo Marc's sentiment!

Mark