Mateusz Konieczny has marked barrier=embankment as deprecated, and I'm adding the "deprecated features" template to the wiki page (which I just made last month, for documentation). Most features were imported before 2011.
In contrast, man_made=embankment is well-documented and established, with increasing usage: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Embankment-man_made-vs-barrier.png (Graph from http://taghistory.raifer.tech) Please comment if you disagree with deprecating barrier=embankment or have any concerns On 4/12/19, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > The tag barrier=embankment was not part of the original barriers > proposal and does not have a wiki page, but it is used 4750 times: > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/barrier=embankment > > However, man_made=embankment is well-documented and used over 80,000 > times: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made=embankment > > There is also a tag "embankment=yes" that can be applied to linear > features like roads, similar to "cutting=yes". > > And there is barrier=retaining_wall which is documented: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier=retaining_wall > > How is this tag being used? Are there any situations where > barrier=embankment is better or at least clearly different than > man_made=embankment? > > (Note that this tag is currently rendered by the Openstreetmap-Carto > style like a retaining wall or fence, while man_made=embankment has a > specific rendering, but this could change) > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
