[OSM-talk] New dimension of vandalism

Mike Harris mikh43 at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 27 09:25:36 BST 2009


I agree with Aun ..

Mike Harris
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) [mailto:skippern at gimnechiske.org] 
> Sent: 27 August 2009 01:05
> To: Frederik Ramm
> Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org; Lulu-Ann at gmx.de
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] New dimension of vandalism
> 
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:43:22 +0200, Frederik Ramm 
> <frederik at remote.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Lulu-Ann at gmx.de wrote:
> >> There was a change on the highway key wiki page, that 
> interferes with 
> >> the concept presented here.
> > 
> > Have you read the following relevant thread on talk-de:
> > 
> > 
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2009-August/052258.ht
> > ml
> > 
> > Since both you and dieterdreist are speakers of German, I'm 
> surprised 
> > that you didn't speak up when the issue was raised on talk-de three 
> > weeks ago and now start a discussion on this list.
> > 
> The German speaking community on OSM is large, but not large 
> enough to form a majority, this sort of discussions should be 
> brought forward to the general talk if the national lists 
> agrees in some form of change so that those of us that 
> doesn't speak german can take part in the process.
> >  > IMHO this is a new dimension of vandalism.
> > 
> > The acronym "IMHO" is not well placed if you throw around such 
> > accusations. What you're saying here is not a "humble" opinion.
> > 
> >  > I also think we need a consensus that tag descriptions for tags 
> > that  > are used more than 100.000 times shall not be 
> changed without 
> > a  > proposal.
> > 
> > That seemed to be the consensus on talk-de as well (or at least 
> > "without prior discussion", not necessarily on the Wiki - 
> personally I 
> > dislike proposals, discussions and voting on the Wiki).
> > 
> If such discussions on national/lingual mailing lists isn't 
> brought to other lists, and mainly to talk, than the Wiki is 
> the only common medium.
> All proposal of this scale should have an english page 
> (though I guess there will be discussions in several linguas 
> as well) and consesus have to be reached among all groups of 
> OSM, not a couple of selective groups, even if it is the 
> larger communities.
> 
> Adding new tags, and changing widely used tags are two very 
> different topics, and the bar of changing a tag such as 
> highway should be much higher than to add a new type of amenities.
> 
> --
> Brgds
> Aun Johnsen
> via Webmail
> 
> 
> 





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