[OSM-talk] tagging trailblazes / marked paths

[Igor Brejc]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tom Hughes wrote:
>> It was "approved" on the basis of a tiny vote on the wiki and I would 
>> say there is zero chance of most people switching from the tags that 
>> have been in use for several years to some new scheme that, as I 
>> understand it, requires about five tags for each path.
>
> > Given that most of the UK examples on the wiki were actually wrong by
> > their own definition last time I looked I certainly plan to stick to
> > what we've always done.
>
> A very similar thing seems to have happened recently with the 
> "Crossing" tag.
>
> I've never been a friend of that voting business but it seems to get 
> more absurd every day. Is it perhaps time now to have a vote on 
> abolishing votes altogehter - or should we continue to let people vote 
> on whatever they like and ignore the results? It's fine with me but 
> seems to irritate newbies who lack the stubbornness that speaks from 
> your above paragraph ;-)
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
I'm not touching the "voting"-"no voting" issue :). I'm just trying to 
think ahead and consider how this data that we're so happily entering 
will be used for purposes other than just rendering (getting back to my 
hiking-buddy SW idea I mentioned a few times before). If we have 10 
different ways of describing the same thing it's going to be difficult 
to implement and maintain SW that uses this data.

Igor

-- 
http://igorbrejc.net