[OSM-talk] Change: How mature is OpenStreetMap?

[Andreas Goss]

> * People are making discussions that come to no conclusion, this is so
> notorious.

I guess one of the main reasons is that you often don't have to come to 
a conclusion. There is no pressue. If there is no agreement everybody 
just keeps tagging like before. I have this with fitness centre/gym now 
again. A few replies and then nobody cares.
(compared to Wikipedia, where in the end you actually want to write 
something on the page, so you have to agree on something and can't just 
mash everything on a page)

> (compare with Wikipedia)

I think the main difference is that most of the Wikipedia stuff is 
discussed on Wikipedia. Meanwhile the OSM database is seperated from the 
Wiki. In addition mailinglists and Forums are used by a lot more people 
than talk: pages.

I keep preaching it over and over again, but unfortunately very few 
people are willing to invest time into the Wiki. It's just so sad when 
you look on TagInfo and see how many tags lack a documentation.
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