[OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Dave F. wrote:
> I don't understand why others should have to spend 
> time sorting out OSM's vagaries purely because we can't decide.

The yes/no question may be the most trivial of cases but generally we 
are reluctant to force a structure onto our mappers. When choosing 
between something that restricts our mappers and something that makes 
life more difficult for our users, we always choose the second because 
mappers are more precious than users.

Granted, there's not much creativity or personal style involved in 
choosing between yes/no and true/false so mappers would probably not 
object to that; but in general the idea "let's have a rigid structure so 
that life becomes easier for our users" is not what we want.

Bye
Frederik