[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Tom Chance wrote:
>> 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.

But isn't what TomH writes above exactly what we have? If you introduce 
something new that was never tagged before, you simply tag it any way 
you think makes sense and it is *very* unlikely that you will run into 
criticism; a few months down the road, when someone else asks how this 
thing should be tagged, you could say that you've been using this and 
that for a while now and he can just do the same.

On the other hand, if your desire is to change something that already 
exists and ask people to tag it differently from now on, or even worse 
if you want people to agree on a blanket automatic change of millions of 
existing objects, then you'll have a much harder time convincing people 
that this is required.

All this without any formal quorum or vote.

Bye
Frederik