[OSM-talk-be] boundary names and my program

[Ivo De Broeck]

Jo,

You did not have to please me. I think the hiking/foot story is a good
example how OSM-Belgium is not working as it should.

- New proposal
- Voting
- Changing the wiki
- Run programs that correct things that are described in de wiki.

PS: What has Germany to do with that??? Simply split ways at the border as
I suggest before.

2012/11/29 Jo <winfixit at gmail.com>

>
>> > Exemple : there was a majority for using "hiking" instead of "foot"
>> > (Potlach preset hiking instead of foot). Its not on the wiki and all
>> > "hiking's" were changed to "foot's". If we continue like that i am sure
>> we
>> > will lose a lot of people.
>>
>> For what it's worth, I did change some from hiking to foot, but that was
>> before the discussion took place, and never systematically. If I happened
>> to
>> encounter one I'd change it if I had to edit it. Of course, many were
>> tagged
>> with foot since I mapped them myself, and the wiki page about the
>> conventions
>> (which I wrote myself...) always had "foot" as the used tag. After the
>> discussion I haven't touched those.
>>
>
> Before that vote I used whatever was in the route relation that I used as
> a template. I launched the vote in order to try and please Ivo. He seemed
> so adamant that hiking was the tag to use, mostly because that's the tag
> Potlatch defaults to and because he claimed that is what is used
> internationally. After the vote I was planning to change the wiki and the
> all the foot/hiking/walking relations going across Belgium. This would have
> had an influence on a few relations going across the border into France,
> The Netherlands and Germany, so I felt obliged to notifiy them. This gave
> some resistance with German mappers who didn't agree with it, as far as the
> short distance ones were concerned (lwn and rwn).
>
> So I changed my mind, didn't edit the wiki page and now I'm changing all
> the rwn routes I touch and create to route=foot. It's the right tag to use,
> and to the point, as most people are not using those routes to 'hike',
> backpack and all, but rather to make a walk on foot.
>
> In conclusion: I hope I made my viewpoint a bit clearer with this message,
>> if
>> I left a bad impression on some people in some discussions. I'm a bit
>> stubborn
>> on some issues, but I'm a very friendly person really :-)
>
>
> I think his bile was rather more directed to me... So don't worry, we all
> try to make the best of it. Unfortunately it's impossible not to step on
> some people's toes in the process.
>
> Jo
>
>
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