On Monday 20 June 2016, Tomas Straupis wrote: > 2016-06-19 23:35 GMT+03:00 Ilya Zverev: > > <...> the proposal about water=* was > > accepted by 16 mappers, and if you have a problem with that, then I > > agree that we should change our proposal process, but in all these > > years nobody has even started. > > Accepted by 16(!) wiki editors but ignored by thousands of mappers. > 5 years after acceptance according to tagwatch: > "new" tag usage > water=reservoir 79937 > water=riverbank 1085 > > "old" tag usage > landuse=reservoir 387793 > waterway=riverbank 293319
You are either deliberately or due to misinformation distorting things here. The water=* is widely used and accepted, there are >700k uses in line with the proposal (an additional 255k for the deprecated water=intermittent). The waterway=riverbank tag is considered equivalent to natural=water + water=river, mappers may use either depending on what they prefer. There are good arguments for either of these options. If you want to eliminate use of water=* from OSM you'd need to convince the community of this. A formal proposal can be used but without convincing arguments on the matter this stands little chance in being approved. You however must not retag features with those tags to something else just for its own sake (i.e. outside normal mapping) - this would not be acceptable and would ultimately lead to reversal of such changes and possibly bans from editing. If you want to do something productive you could clean up the frequent occurences of duplicate and sometimes contradicting tags on member ways and multipolygon relations for river mapping. One of the problems of the waterway=riverbank tag is that it was originally meant and is widely understood to be a way tag while today it should normally be applied to the multipolygons relation. Cleaning up such ambiguities - not mechanically as it has been suggested in the past but with individual verification - using either waterway=riverbank or natural=water + water=river would be a very good deed. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
