[OSM-talk] Edit review: intermittent waters

[Russ Nelson]

Worst Fixer writes:
 > > Persuade people to map just one way, THEN once they're doing that, go
 > > back and get rid of the old way.
 > 
 > Sane people use type= for relation types.
 > They use water= tag to express whether it is lake, pond, river or
 > stream. Not how often it flows.

You seem not to understand. Perhaps German is not your first language? 
Nobody is talking about the sanity or lack of sanity of editors except
perhaps you. I'm talking about how people *actually* map. I think it's
great that you're starting up a conversation on how we should
interpret data not documented in the wiki. I'm NOT sure that we want
to be *changing* data not documented in the wiki. Not sure at all. In
fact, I'm pretty sure that we *shouldn't* be changing it. Sure that
*you* shouldn't be changing it.

Y'see, once you've made that change, one and only one interpretation
of this undocumented data is available to everyone -- YOUR
interpretation. You might be right, you might be wrong, but YOUR voice
will prevail. Whereas, if we documented this data, and said "Don't map
like this -- map like that", then we accomplish two goals: 1) we let
data users know what is the standard interpretation of this data, and
2) we encourage editors to stop editing like this. You know
... without calling them insane.

So yeah, you should stop making these edits, and if you won't stop, I
support taking action to stop you.

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