[OSM-talk] A process for rethinking map features

Tobias Knerr osm at tobias-knerr.de
Tue Aug 11 12:17:48 BST 2009


Tom Chance wrote:
> - Tags are proposed on the wiki, no change to current practice
> - If the proposal throws into question existing, accepted tags, defer the
> proposal to small working groups
> - These working groups study the wider questions and formulate a complete
> proposal for new tags, deprecation, etc.

People can do this already, and I'm sure that a good proposal created by
a working group would easily be accepted in a wiki vote.

> - At SOTM present and discuss their proposals and vote

Aka the "people who have time and money to get to SOTM decide" approach?
I still prefer the "people who care about the issue decide" approach.

> - If proposals are accepted, a combination of carrot (rendering
> stylesheets, Potlatch presets, etc.) and sticks (error checking,
> auto-correcting bots) to implement the accepted proposals

On the one hand, you still cannot force software/stylesheet developers
to use your proposal. On the other hand, we could try the same thing
right now. The path proposal could have been successful long ago if
applications were pushing it instead of refusing to use it (see CycleMap).

So where's the difference between your suggestion and the current
situation, except that you want to limit participation to people at SOTM?

Tobias Knerr




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