[Talk-us] Caliparks re-tagging paths?

[Mike Thompson]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 9:50 AM, James Umbanhowar <jumbanho at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Regardless of the community's eventual solution, I think the most
> important part of this event was the lack of engagement of Caliparks
> and Stamen with the community.  Is there a similar process for
> institutional (business, government, non-profit) editing of data as
> there is for imports?  There should be.  I think institutional
> engagement with OSM can bring many benefits, but has similar dangers as
> imports.

Regardless of who is editing (individual or institution), removing well
accepted tags (highway=path) and substituting newly created tags
(highway=social_path) shouldn't take place without community discussion.

Mike
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