[talk-au] Roundabouts and routing

[Steve Bennett]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:52 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I missed the comment about voting, it's mostly a pointless exercise,
> current estimates claim almost 200,000 users, and the current voting
> system suggest about 15 votes for a proposal, does seem like a very
> good majority to me.
>

I'm more bothered by the fact that it's unclear what voting *means*.

It doesn't mean:
- you can now use the tag (you could use it anyway)
- you can now document the tag (ditto)
- renderers must now support the tag

Does it mean that the tag now goes in "map features"? is that the only way?
What does it matter? etc.


>
> I really would like to see a proper/formal tagging working group of a
> limited number of people that suggestions can be submitted to, who
> then vet and put out a request for comments document on suggested
> tags.
>

A committee? I'm wary.


>
> Although some people think this means all tags, but that isn't my
> intent, I'm talking about things like footways/pathways that a
> sufficiently wide spread to need a little calm/rational discussing
> about, which currently doesn't occur for the most part so we're left
> to who ever is the most voicetress minority.
>

Dunno, I've seen some pretty reasonable discussions of these topics lately.

Steve
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