[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

[Tom Chance]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:02:28 +0100, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> On 11/08/09 08:50, Roy Wallace wrote:
>> 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??
> 
> Well the hurdle to jump to change an existing tagging should certainly 
> be much higher than the hurdle to introduce a new tag for something that 
> hasn't been tagged before.

Which is precisely why I made a simple proposal for a new process in these
situations.

It may not be the right process, but we have to admit that the case of
"highway=path" - notwithstanding the merit of that proposal - shows the
current process is quite broken.

Regards,
Tom