[OSM-talk] Doocracy | Re: Idea for improving mapping system

[Simon Poole]

Am 18.10.2020 um 16:49 schrieb Colin Smale:
>
> On 2020-10-18 15:04, Simon Poole wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 18.10.2020 um 11:07 schrieb Rory McCann:
>>> Like mnany things in OSM, the reason it hasn't been done is because no-one has actually done it yet. It looks like other people find your idea of "levels" and "badges" interesting, so you should try attempt it yourself.
>>
>> Like many things in OSM, the reason that it isn't being done, is 
>> because it has been tried and has failed. It looks like that other 
>> people don't find the idea of "levels" and "badges" interesting, so 
>> you shouldn't attempt it again.
> ...unless either the proposal, or the circumstances, have changed in 
> some significant way, or unless a substantial period of time has 
> passed. Never say never.
>
Agreed, but the point was that there is 16 years of OSM-history in which 
most stuff from the 5-minute (community) manager has been tried in one 
way or the other, and there are reasons, which might need to be 
re-evaluated if things have significantly changed, why things are not 
being done, -not- that they simply hasn't been tried.


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