[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

Ulf Möller usenet at ulfm.de
Mon Aug 10 12:32:54 BST 2009


John Smith schrieb:

>> for a new feature, do what you want! But it's crazy that we
>> let random
>> unaccountable groups of wiki users change the rules for
> 
> Maybe some pages on the wiki should be locked, and translations of mapping features shouldn't change the original meaning/intent of them.

That however doesn't solve the problem of random unaccountable groups of 
wiki users voting on tagging proposals. Many "accepted features" have 
had less than 20 votes, and some of the tags even are in broken English.

If you're saying translations can't change the meaning you need to make 
sure that the original descriptions work for any place in the world. How 
would you do that?





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