[OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmunro at arjam.net
Wed Oct 22 14:57:59 BST 2008


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Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>>> We have no mechanism to divide "good" from "bad" ideas. If you start 
>>> putting your ideas about what you think is good and "should" be used on 
>>> Map Features, then I will start putting mine on there as well, and 
>>> everyone else. That's why we don't want to go down this road. (And 
>>> before anyone asks, a vote in which 0.01% of mappers participate does 
>>> not elevate one idea about what is "good" above hundreds of others.)
>> I agree with you here, but voting seems to be the current practice.
> 
> It may seem so, but in fact voting is just a pastime of a tiny minority 
> of OSMers; the vast majority don't care for either the process or the 
> results.

You allege that, but what evidence do you have to back it up?

I for one don't vote very much, but do care about due process and the
results. I will follow the tagging advice that has been voted for,
because I know that several people have thought about the issues and
more of them thought one option was better than the other.

Robert (Jamie) Munro


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