[Talk-GB] not_in_map_features

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
>Sent: 24 September 2008 12:29 AM
>To: Ed Loach
>Cc: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] not_in_map_features
>
>Hi,
>
>Ed Loach wrote:
>
>> If I'd known
>> I could have just gone in and revised it to make everything that
>> much more logical and consistent I'd have done it already <bg>.
>
>Map Features is there to document what we have (and by implication to
>suggest that new things could be mapped in the same way if practical).
>
>So if you change what we have, or if you introduce something entirely
>new we didn't have before, then you should indeed amend Map Features.
>
>Just revising Map Features on a whim without also revising the data
>would, however, be counterproductive because, as I said, Map Features is
>there to document what we have (and not to say "I'd like you to do it
>this way in the future please").
>
>If you intend to make a large-scale change to the data that's there,
>some advance discussion is in order and you should only proceed if there
>is widespread acceptance. This does not necessarily require writing a
>proposal on the Wiki. And widespread acceptance does not mean "I called
>for a vote and of the 8 people who participated, 7 were in favour".
>

I'd like to reinforce Frederik on all of this. +1

Cheers

Andy

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>Frederik
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