[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

[John Smith]

--- On Tue, 11/8/09, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, so you're proposing basically a one-off overhall of the
> set of
> basic tags, after which everything returns to normal (i.e.
> relative
> chaos)?

No, I'm proposing that a working group be setup and work through existing and new proposals. The idea is they will vet ideas before they become available for public comment, this will fix the problem with broken english proposals and problems in translating them later.

If the working group thinks an idea is a valid one for the "common set of tags" then things will progress from there.

It should be discouraged that editors and other software show non-vetted tags to maintain a consistency.