[OSM-talk] Vegetation page

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/12/2 Peter Körner <osm-lists at mazdermind.de>:
> Mike Harris schrieb:
>> (... Not entirely seriously ...)
>>
>> If OSM is an international project - and IMHO it most certainly IS and
>> should be! - then what can you possibly mean by your phrase 'foreign
>> national'? Or are you extraterrestrial ... In which case 'welcome to planet
>> earth' - but, as OSM is a community-drive project I am so sorry but 'we
>> cannot take you to our leader'.
>>
>> My wife is only foreign when she is in England ... And I am only foreign
>> when I am not ...
>
> Okay, okay, you're right.
>
> But maybe I get a second chance to phrase it like this:
>
> If this page is meant to give an overview, then, in a international
> project, it should only contain things that are useful all around the world.

I think that tag can be easily useful around the world, it only needs
a correct description using physical and other characteristics.  The
value of openstreetmap (on of them anyway) is in being global and
using the same code for an equivalent feature in York and in Hanoi so
you can, say, make proper statistics with it.

Cheers