[Talk-us] Role of the Wiki

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 12/05/12 02:44, Jeff Meyer wrote:
> What's the role of the wiki as a source of information in the OSM community?

It would be ideal if the Wiki could be relied upon as a guide to 
everything in OSM so that if you want to know "how is X usually done in 
OSM" you can turn to the Wiki and find an answer.

Sadly, because of the perceived role as "authoritative tagging 
guideline", some people focus their attention on writing things on the 
Wiki rather than on mapping, which occasionally leads to the Wiki 
containing absurd rules that have little basis in OSM reality.

Sometimes the collected experience of a thousand mappers speaks to you 
through the wiki, and sometimes it's a single loony speaking.

> In general, is there a method to when the wiki is or is not relevant?

If an experienced mapper tells you to RTFW then it is probably relevant. 
If you find something on the Wiki that makes you go "uh, guess I'll 
change the tags in the whole of the US then" then you better ask someone 
for another opinion ;)

Bye
Frederik

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