[OSM-talk] Voting

[Paul Hurley]

Sven Grüner wrote:

>Frederik Ramm schrieb:
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>>I've been critcised for not suggesting an alternative. So here's my 
>>suggestion:
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>>* [...]
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>Okay, slowly I realize that I took all this for granted while you didn't.
>While I'm not yet certain wether you seriously propose such a task force 
>it's no good idea I believe. That would inevitably become a "closed" 
>group at that others would point their fingers saying "It's all their 
>fault". In contrast our current system is truly open: Anybody can drop 
>by in the wiki write one or two lines to a proposal and leave again.
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>>In this discussion, I find myself on their side: Our project is so open, 
>>and I have the impression that you are trying to *reduce* that openness 
>>by setting up a voting process. I have the suspicion that in the end you 
>>want a project where new tags aren't even allowed unless they underwent 
>>discussion and voting. And that's where my fierce opposition comes from.
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>Naturally I can only speak for myself but I'm almost certain this 
>applies to others as well: I don't want to allow or disallow anything! 
>When I spent time with proposals I consider that a service to others. 
>Those others are free to chose wether they want to use my service of 
>neatly structured and described tags or not.
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>I'm a mechanical engineer and see on a daily basis how industrial norms 
>like ISO, DIN, etc. make things easier by allowing you to concentrate on 
>your core business rather than worrying if other people will now what I 
>mean by a M6x40 bolt. Take ISO 5457 for example: You are free to use 
>whatever paperformat you like but isn't it also comfortable to walk into 
>any shop and ask for DIN A4 paper sheets, that every printer and every 
>desktop application will know what you mean without the need to say that 
>it's a piece of paper with the dimensions 210x297mm?
>Even when there are several competing norms that's fine as long each one 
>clearly defines it's meaning and one knows which one applies.
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>There are of course laws and alike which enforce people to meet such 
>norms but it's false to blame the resulting hassle on those who created 
>the norm.
>So we should try to scatter the illusion that tags as they can be found 
>in the wiki are obligatory in any kind. I'll be glad to do so when you 
>point me to such places.
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>regards, Sven
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+1

Paul.

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Paul Hurley	http://www.paulhurley.co.uk/
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