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

[Alex Mauer]

Sven Grüner wrote:

> I agree with you that some terms in this process might not be optimal,
> same applies to depricated. But as a non-native speaker I never thought
> about that and just took these words for what they mean in this context.
> 
> On the other hand I still see that the word approve fits in here quiet
> well. The question is what, how and why someone approves something. In
> our context I (when voting) approve by the authority of my own opinion
> that the tagging in question is making sense. That's all to it.
> 
> I consider it obvious that I'm casting my vote NOT on behalf of OSMF or
> some other superhuman instance somewhere out there but just on the
> authority any human has from it's birth on, his own opinion.
> I also consider it obvious that nobody has any authourity or even power
> about which tags a mapper may enter, regardless of what he writes in our
> wiki or elsewhere.
> 
> And after a quick glance at http://dict.leo.org/?search=approve I don't
> even think 'approve' is such a strong word at all. But when you're more
> comfortable with 'agree' we should consider that.

I am a native speaker, and this entire post reflects my opinion as well.

I am particularly confused about the strong negative reaction to 
"deprecated".  A lot of people seem to take it as "forbidden to use 
ever" or something like that, which seems weird to me.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"