[Tagging] better classification systems

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Feb 12, 2021, 21:35 by tomasstraupis at gmail.com:

> 2021-02-12, pn, 20:04 Colin Smale rašė:
>
>> I am not talking about changes to the tagging, but a review of the governance of the tagging.
>>
>
> This is of utter importance as currently governance is a total mess:
>  * no way to decide (and therefore some
> profane/pointless/unrepresentative wiki-"votings" exist)
>
Like it or not, but wiki voting disliked by you and tagging mailing list 
discussions and tagging discussions happening elsewhere and tangle of
mappers, validators, editors are how we decide things
(for vast majority of tagging decisions are clear with some problematic
cases and aspects)

>  * no way to enforce (several iD coders decide themselves what is a
> "correct" tagging irrespective of mapper community)
>
>  And I would say governance is the FIRST thing which needs to be
> fixed because nothing can be fixed without it - there is currently NO
> OWNER of OpenStreetMap.
>
If OSM would be owned/ruled/controlled by one specific entity I
would be not contributing to it.

I am also deeply skeptical about idea that making someone
Imperator and Ruler of Tagging would improve situation
(even attempting that would have massively negative effects).

I have seen some people attempting to do this on smaller or larger scale
(including myself, on very minor issues where I was fortunately
stopped), you mention another case that had worse fallout and
is still not entirely resolved.

For me "there is currently NO OWNER of OpenStreetMap" is a big plus
and feature, and I would oppose anyone trying to change that.
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