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

[Gustav Foseid]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Sebastian Hohmann <mail at s-hohmann.de>wrote:

> Even if the tag is horrible, it has been voted on and should thus stay
> on Map Features. Or should just everyone edit the wiki without regard
> for others.


The tag is, in my opinion, very_horrible, but that is besides the point
here. In my opinion the name for unclassified and parts of the places
structure just as bad.

We need to have a place to document the most used tags and tags that should
be known, and easy to find, for newcomers as well as trained mappers. That
is the Map Features page, and it should be reserved for a core set of tags,
recognised by the most important renders and/or routing application.
Smoothness is _not_ such a tag.

The place for an "approved" tag which is not widely used is Approved
features, not Map Features.

 - Gustav
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