[Tagging] RFC: school:for (to map special education and other ambiguous cases)

stevea steveaOSM at softworkers.com
Sun Jun 19 07:24:03 UTC 2022


On Jun 19, 2022, at 12:10 AM, Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> wrote:
> What can I say, my crystal ball is imperfect. :-)

We do our best here, indeed!

> It's not that I want it to be impossible to use OSM in a certain manner. But if a realistic use case cannot be articulated for tagging something as difficult to ascertain as IEP/ISP acceptance, then how do we know we're designing the right tagging scheme upfront? Better to let such tagging evolve organically and revisit it later than to design a potentially flawed scheme now, get it approved, and be stuck trying to explain it.

Yes, there is letting tagging evolve (throwing at the dartboard), then there is "perfection is the enemy of the good," so you never throw the dart, fearing to never hit the bullseye, let alone hitting even the dartboard at all.  Somewhere in the middle is a sweet spot, and it's not always east to "foresee!"


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