[OSM-talk] Tag proposal/approval system is too heavyweight

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Frederik Ramm schrieb:
>> The way we usually do things around here is "those who do the work get
>> to decide how it's done". 

> Interestingly, your vineyard example is exactly working that way. YOU 
> have decided that you want to have vineyards in the way you like it. YOU 
> have implemented it into osmarender to be shown on the map. So in effect 
> YOU "control how others do theirs" - by setting the "reference" how it's 
> displayed on the map.
> 
> Maybe the reason you're one of the people raising the voice against 
> voting is that it will reduce YOUR level of control over others?!?

Ulf, that is a crap argument. I know Fredrik well enough to say that
control is the least of his motives. What he is trying to convey is that
in most cases it just needs somebody to implement it the way we thinks
is right. And in doing so effectively provides a kind-of standard that
can be used. Our SVN is public, anybody can apply for access. In order
to add features you don't have to be able to program.

Really anybody who was bothered enough and wants a feature shown on the
map can add that. And you are arguing that somebody is trying to
decrease other peoples power?
What can Frederik do if you you add amenity=molehill to the renderers
stylesheet. He is neither maintainer nor judge on these issues either.

Lots of good arguments on both sides here in this thread. But this was
not one of them.

Sebastian