[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

Alex Mauer hawke at hawkesnest.net
Tue Aug 11 01:57:49 BST 2009


On 08/10/2009 05:31 PM, Liz wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Dave Stubbs wrote:
>> Anarchy in tagging died a bit back when some guys on the wiki decided
>> ochlocracy was the way to go.
>> Tagging used to be occasionally a confused mess.
>> Now it's an organised, and "approved" confused mess where anyone with
>> a clue automatically withdraws from discussions to keep their sanity
>> intact (and to give them some more time to go and actually map
>> something), knowing full well that not being there won't make much
>> difference to the eventual stupid decision.
>>
>> Gah... must... be... more... positive...
> 
> I would consider that if we have thousands of mappers, that we should set a 
> quorum for a vote
> so that unless at least x hundred people vote the vote is not valid

From
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features#Proposal_Status_Process:
"8 unanimous approval votes or 15 total votes with a majority approval"

It seems to me that we have one.
-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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