[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - boundary=forestry(_compartment) relations

[Christoph Hormann]

First of all there are some rather unusual ideas in what you write that 
i have not fully grasped in their supposed practical meaning or 
justification yet.

I will therefore only have a few comments i hope can avoid 
misunderstandings a bit:

The voting in the current tagging proposal process is meant to determine 
if there is consensus on a specific tagging idea.  The supermajority 
vote is therefore not a vote in the strict sense, it is meant as a 
means to determine rough consensus.  The difference between the two is 
primarily how you deal with dissenting voices.  The proposal process 
therefore explicitly requires dissenting votes and comments to be taken 
into account "in order to resolve any deficiencies in the original 
proposal".

You also should keep in mind that:

* w.r.t. the OSMF information on disputed territories that by their own 
mission the OSMF does not have any say in tagging and mapping in OSM.  
What is written in that document is an attempt to describe and explain 
OSM *as it is* to people outside of OSM.  It is not an attempt to 
prescribe to mappers in OSM how things should be mapped.  
* what is written on the OSM wiki about tags is just that:  What people 
have written on the wiki.  As discussed previously there are different 
ideas what purposes the wiki should serve.  There are some who edit the 
wiki with the aim to document how tags should be used from their 
perspective while there are others who aim for the wiki to reflect how 
tags are used.  And even in case of the latter there is no guarantee 
that the wiki at any time actually reflects actual use and de facto 
meaning of tags.

Finally i like to point out that verifiability in OSM is not the same as 
accuracy.  The two things are related only insofar as only verifiable 
information can objectively be determined to be accurate (or 
approximate) to some degree.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
https://www.imagico.de/