[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

[Roy Wallace]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Tom Hughes<tom at compton.nu> wrote:
>
> That's a completely ridiculous quorum when we have 10000 active mappers.
> If the process says that eight people can get together and tell
> thousands of people that they've been "doing it wrong" for the last five
> years and should start retagging everything according to some new scheme
> then the process is broken.

What would you suggest? It is quite possible that the effect of
increasing the number of necessary votes will only result in slowing
down progress. Do you instead expect that it would increase the
quality of the accepted proposals? Or are you saying that new ways of
tagging things are just bad in general??