[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

[Emilie Laffray]

2009/8/11 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>

> 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.
>

+1
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