But prudent way would probably be to come with some rules on change of tagging schema. Like: * When tagging schema is too widespread to be protected against changes * What benefits should new schema add in order to deprecate existing schema
Because otherwise this plague of deprecating existing widespread schemas (water is not the only impacted area here) in order to bring some dubious "benefits" will continue. Some people simply do not have experience and do not understand what is the value of stability and what are the actual costs of changing something which is already widespread (for this I like to give an example of highway tag which is was correct when it was created but is incorrect now, but we do not change it for the same reason of stability and total cost). P.S. Stability does not necessarily prohibit freedom of tagging. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
