[Tagging] Fuzzy areas again: should we have them or not?

Brian M. Sperlongano zelonewolf at gmail.com
Thu Dec 24 14:46:23 UTC 2020


Right, which is why when a member of the DWG declares that something cannot
be done, it is a reasonable ask to say "what is meant by that?"  I thank
Andy for his clarifying remarks.

On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 9:21 AM Tomas Straupis <tomasstraupis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > Has the DWG ever taking swift and immediate action to enforce a
> particular
> > tagging scheme? <...> but I can't think of an occasion when we've
> enforced
> > a particular tagging scheme in that way.
>
>   On what grounds DWG could take any action?
>   There is no such thing as "the only right" tagging scheme.
>   There is currently no team of experts which could decide which
> tagging scheme is better in case of a dispute (organising voting of
> sufficient number of mappers is practically impossible).
>   If a local community decides to use scheme A that is it they use
> schema A. DWG or anybody else can/should do NOTHING.
>
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