[OSM-talk] Looking Forward

[Simon Poole]

With respect to "Strict Tagging Rules" .... this is my contribution :-) 
(from #osm-dev typos edited)

[00:36] * simonpoole thinks that it would be  as step forward if we 
would simply have "official" tags with a well defined official value 
space (we will probably always have to live with national semantics of 
tags) and everything else being our customary free-for-all  and prefixed 
with "X-" (for experimental) ... it is just a no-brainer
[00:40] <petschge> not gonna work
[00:41] <simonpoole> with suitable restraints in the database ... sure 
it will work
[00:43] <simonpoole> and we can use taginfo to determine the initial set 
of official stuff tag-value tupels
[00:44] <petschge> oh technically it might work just fine. but will 
never fly socially
[00:45] <simonpoole> f**k socially :-)
[00:45] * simonpoole dictates
[00:48] <simonpoole> half seriously: doing this would actually fix 
multiple problems, for example voting on tagging which simply doesn't 
work because the net result is no different than if joe mapper simply 
starts using his most recent creation
[00:50] <simonpoole> and to fix the social part you can point to the 
IETF etc. that will make everybody feel much more grown-up when this is 
implemented ...
[00:53] <rweait1> I like a social approach to support "sensible" 
tagging.  Write good beginner HowToMap docs with tons of examples.  Then 
point to sensible HowTos from everywhere.
[00:55] <simonpoole> that doesn't contradict my proposal at all ....