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

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

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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