[OSM-talk] Overhaul of voting process (was: Road crossings proposal - status?)

[Robin Paulson]

2008/5/8 Christoph Eckert <ce at christeck.de>:
>  > For those who think the RFC/vote process represents the
>  >   consensus on how things should be done, what needs to happen to
>  >   change that process?
>
>  IMO map features should be built on top of tagwatch. This way tagging
>  recommendations would be built on top what's actually used. Much more
>  democratic than the current process IMO :) .

how could it be more democratic? anyone can vote, anyone can put their
point across. this is direct democracy in it's purest form

using tagwatch is a good idea as a basis for proposals, but problems
arise when we have two ways of tagging the same type of item. how does
anyone decide which should be used? one must be more optimal than the
other. having two methods running concurently is crazy and pointless.
so we get back to voting again

the bigger question should be this; one i ask myself whenever i have a
technical problem to solve:
what are we trying to achieve?

tagwatch is a potential solution; now what is the problem it must solve?