[OSM-talk] A process for rethinking map features

[Ulf Lamping]

Liz schrieb:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Nop wrote:
>> You cannot force anything but you can discourage putting presets for
>> disputed tags in editors (if it is frowned upon as some sort of indirect
>> vandalism and rolled back) and you can make an organised effort to bring
>> a newly established tagging scheme into all major editors and renderers
>> in a consistent way. Right now, it is purely chaotic.
> 
> A simple example of this is amenity=doctors and amenity=doctor
> discussed a little earlier, where neither tag on the wiki is "accepted" but 
> one has been taken up the editing software.

There was a discussion on this list about doctors vs. doctor and the 
conclusion was to use doctors, as this was more "natural" for native 
speakers.

I don't regard this as purely chaotic ...

Regards, ULFL