[OSM-talk] A process for rethinking map features

[Ben Laenen]

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, and it confuses non-native speakers since it just looks like a plural, 
while most places they'd want to tag would only have one doctor...

But anyway, that wasn't the discussion here :-)

It's still putting a lot of power in the hands of the people in charge of the 
editors though if they can decide what tags to use.

Ben