[OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki "map features"

[Pieren]

The "Map Features" page is really a very important page and not only
for newcomers.
It is supposed to show the commonly agreed way of tagging core features.
But now we have this edit war about smoothness which enters in
conflict with tracktype and surface. The way how those tags can
co-exists is poorly documented at the moment
(the same issue appears with path and footway/cycleway/bridleway).

This gives a very bad impression for newcomers if we continue to
provide different solutions for the same features in the page saying
"This page contains a core recommended feature set and corresponding
tags".

I agree with Andy : this single page cannot receive all possible
features. And I have some ideas about other features which are not
justified in this "core feature set" page.

But this surface/tracktype/usability subject seems to be enough
important to be included.
And the "temptation" to put an accepted key/value in the Map Feature
is very strong, like a page one in a newspaper.

However, if there is a strong opposition (but not only from one
person), then I would also suggest to re-open the proposal and try to
reply to the valid remarks/questions.

Pieren

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote: