[OSM-talk] Move tagging RfCs/voting to extra list?

Nick Black nickblack1 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 08:40:10 GMT 2008


Lets try another way round.  Is there anyone who does not want a list
for general tagging discussions?



On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
<openstreetmap at ostertag.name> wrote:
> On Dienstag 29 Januar 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I wrote the following two weeks ago because I felt that the talk list
>  > was a bit flooded by administrative "voting ends", "voting opens",
>  >
>  > "comments requested" etc. messages:
>  > >    would it make sense to create a new mailing list - say
>  > > "tagging at openstreetmap.org" or so - to which all tag proposals and
>  > > requests for comments/votes could be directed, and reclaim talk@ for
>  > > informal community chat?
>
>  I would love to see this seperated into a proposal lists. This would indeed
>  make talk easy readable again.
>  I personally don't really care about how the tags are defined. If I need any
>  tag I'll take a look at the MapFeatures Page. This way I know that I always
>  have aproved tags. It would even be more convenient if we would be able to
>  add these approved tags to josm as default taggin-presets. But this will be a
>  little bit in the future...
>  If on the other side I want to use a Tag (for example for GPSDrive) I take the
>  osm.xml from the mapnik-svn directory and this solves my problems for the
>  other way arround.
>
>
>  > At the time, I thought we had somewhat of a consensus that we should
>  > either create an extra list
>
>  As already said, I would love to see this happen.
>  Being subscribed to this list too would give me the possibilty to filter
>  proposals much easier from standard talk messages and this for follow both in
>  the level wanted.
>
>
>  > or have one condensed "voting issues"
>  > posting per week (or so).
>
>  I don't think we really need this. Probably only a summary (once a week) of
>  all the approved features.
>
>
>  > Alas, not much has changed since then, so I repeat the suggestion:
>  > Let's create an extra list for formal aspects of tagging discussions.
>
>  Yes please!
>
>
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>
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