[OSM-talk] Overhaul of voting process

[Gervase Markham]

Christoph Eckert wrote:
> 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 :) .

Tagwatch tells you what is. It cannot by itself tell you what should be. 
It could be that everyone is using a particular tag for some feature, 
but that tag nevertheless has problems. It may also, as Robin points 
out, show you that 50% of people are using one tag, and 50% are using 
another. What then?

Lastly, it cannot tell you if 50% of people are using foo=bar to mean 
one thing, and the other 50% are using it to mean something else. Tags 
do not contain all of their semantics in their names.

Gerv