[OSM-talk] Prolification of the amenity tag

[bvh]

(This is going to be my last reply on this issue. It seems everything
has been said and no agreement has been reached. Thats ok)

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:03:45AM +0000, Ben Robbins wrote:
> >You are aware that the pick up area of a wifi hotspot is not static?
> I'm not very knowledgeble on the matter, but there must be some spots that 
> can be gaanteed to be in the wifi zone, as I am currently on one, and it is 
> perminent.  When I walk the other side of the hill I can't get it ever.  
> Therfore the line will fall between.   Is Fon.com a wiki?   If not then 

fon.com is a provider of shared wifi points. They organize private
individuals who want to share their wifi access point and publish
that list. Fon.com is just like vodaphone, t-mobile or other wireless
access providers. My point being : we can copy their data inside
OSM and be constantly out of date. Or we can create mashups that
use openstreetmap for the maps and their published list of accesspoints.

> Stating that something is pointless wouild just mean people may not want to 
> be using it.  Pointless is very different to deconstructive.  Therefore I 
> don't think thats any reason for you to vote against it, so that a tag may 
> not be made standaised for people that may wish to 'pointlessly' use it.  
> As it is you are free not to use a tag, you don't need to stop others 
> using/making tags, to enable you not to use it.

As I understood this, I vote pro/anti official _endorsment_ of a tag.
Not pro/against allowing a certain tag.

cu bart