On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Matthias Julius wrote: > > Anyway, after a tag has been removed from Map Features > > Of course nobody would remove a tag from Map Features as long as it is > still widely used! It seems that User:Sergionaranja was unclear about > this and has accidentally removed highway=gate and others from Map > Features (and indeed documented some barrier=* tags on the Map > Features:highway template where they don't belong!). I have reverted > that edit, and added a proper section for the "barrier" tag. > > > or clearly marked as depreciated > > There is no authority in OSM that has the power to mark anything as > deprecated. > > I have modified the wording on the page "deprecated features" to clearly > say that these are tags for which a replacement is recommended, not > "deprecated tags that should no longer be used". Whoever put that > wording in there, please note that you have *no* authority to tell > people how they "should" tag things! > > I am also thinking about renaming the page altogether. There is simply > no room for the word "deprecated" here. I'm just unsure about the new > name. "Old features"? "Older features"? > Unfashionable Features? > > > and no new data has been added with that tag for > > a good while (a year maybe) it is probably safe to convert existing > > occurances to the new scheme and stop supporting the old one, IMHO. > > It is probably never "safe" but at some time one has to move on, we > cannot support old stuff forever. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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