[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

[Liz]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
> 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.
and a working group should contain members from all over the globe, as 
possible, because of the differences in legal issues in different places
and yes, it needs members who are native speakers of major world languages to 
help with translation into Spanish, German, French and so on