[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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