[talk-au] Railway Station Naming Dispute

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:39 PM, John Berkers <berjo at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> I'm relatively new to OSM, but thought that I would weigh into the debate.

Hi John,

Welcome!  And great local background.  Thank you.

> Lastly, the original request was for advice on how to handle the situation
> with the other OSM user.  AFAIK the other user may not subscribe to this
> list, so while having this debate here is good, the other user may not
> even be aware of it.  Is there a way to handle 'disputes' such as this one
> so that once a consensus is reached after a reasonable discussion, an
> adjustment to the name can be made, without it being reverted?

Conflict resolution differs according to the participants, of course.
Some suggestions are provided on the wiki.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Disputes