| SomeoneElse Andy Townsend Support moderator
March 14 |
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dieterdreist:
you can’t compare the situation of the early days with today
It is absolutely still a problem with the wiki now that tag definitions get changed there that does not reflect usage.
yes, it still happens, what I wrote was that it will likely be reverted soon or very soon if it is about “important” tags with many uses (and in the English version, I am looking at 3 languages in the wiki and if it is not English, the probability to find something strange is much higher), You won’t have something like the default for barrier or highway changed, but now there are also much more documented tags than in the early days, so it may still happen. If you appoint someone as the maintainer, and s/he develops their own ideas how things should be, the damage would be much bigger, think about ID presets. We might overcome this with more people and having a group stear it together, but this model will very likely slow down the development of new tags significantly, look at Carto, it has become fairly “stable” with not so many changes in recent years https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/graphs/code-frequency
The advantage that a pull request model has is that everyone gets to discuss it before any change is made. There have been attempts to do this - here is one; here is essentially another. The latter has many of the same sort of contentious submissions as the OSM wiki but there’s a filter that ensure that changes where we (as a community) “just aren’t sure” don’t get applied.
I don’t understand the “filter” part, isn’t the Wacky Warehouse still as pub in the NSI?