[Talk-GB] "designated" and "permissive" confuse new people

[Jon Pennycook]

It's true that I don't edit the wiki despite reading it, but without some
sort of accepted guidance (which can be changed if desired), we could have
a free-for-all where people do all kinds of weird things that break routing
and map display.  It's especially useful for challenging edits by
commercial editors (e.g. when one company decided that any service roads or
tracks leading to places they delivered to should be tagged
motor_vehicle=yes, thinking that "yes" meant it was physically possible to
drive a motor vehicle down there, as opposed to motor vehicles being
generally allowed).

Jon

On Sat, 2 Oct 2021 at 19:03, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> On 02/10/2021 18:10, Jon Pennycook wrote:
> > I think people don't know about the wiki or don't want to use it (it's
> > huge and probably difficult to know what to look for),
>
> At least in the past, people on this list were often advised to ignore
> the wiki.  There seemed to be a view that the people maintaining the
> wiki weren't the people actually mapping, and there didn't seem to be
> any enthusiasm among the latter to contribute to its maintenance.
>
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