[OSM-talk] Documenting controversial iD decisions

[Lester]

On 29/05/2019 01:10, Clifford Snow wrote:
> Why should one editor be held to higher standards than others? Shouldn't 
> they all be held to the same standard?

As someone who still fights to keep potlatch2 working locally then yes 
all options should be judged to the same standard, and there are 
defaults on all editors that simply don't work or contradict what 
another editor 'defaults' to providing. Invariably I end up on 
'advanced' so I can override choices given even in potlatch2.

The 'standard' should be the current tagging guidelines and NOTHING 
should prevent an editor from adding changes that ARE still evolving. 
lifeguard facilities are a good example of the sort of additional detail 
that is still developing. So being able to add that detail is important 
even if it needs manual assistance. NO editor should enforce it's own 
restricted view of tagging here.

I'm still of the opinion that what I will call 'primary' keys should be 
more regulated, and that the API provides the standard for key elements 
like highway and building. highway=platform is a key element of my view 
of the data and simply extracting 'highway' should give all of the key 
material for moving around the world ... along with waterway although in 
my mind navigable 'waterway' elements are simply highway as well along 
with railway. So fragmenting all these across other 'new' detail tags is 
simply wrong in my higher level view of the data. Pedestrian areas 
linking between road, rail and water transport DO need a little more 
consistent tagging as it is not at all easy currently to decide just 
what IS a correct set of tags to cover all pedestrian areas? It should 
not depend on which editor was used to create the data :(

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