[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/11 Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net>:

>> I would consider that if we have thousands of mappers, that we should set a
>> quorum for a vote
>> so that unless at least x hundred people vote the vote is not valid
>
> From
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features#Proposal_Status_Process:
> "8 unanimous approval votes or 15 total votes with a majority approval"
>
> It seems to me that we have one.

Yes, there is one, but 15 votes in a 135000-users comunity (10000
frequent contributors a month) is not the voter participation that you
could generally agree on as democratic.
It corresponds to 0,01 % (for all users) or 0,15 % (contributors) of
voter participation. ;-)
Besides that we hope to all play fair, one could easily create
multiple accounts and turn the voting process to whatever result you
like ;-), and still everybody has the right to map whatever he likes
using whatever tags he prefers. So voting seems a little bit
pointless. (I don't know why I'm nonetheless participating) ;-)

cheers,
Martin