[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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