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<div>Mar 8, 2020, 02:41 by music.kashish@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>That would be tempting, because it would mean a lot less work for us in the short term. However, I'm afraid of ending up like PTv2 -<br></div><div>1. It 'does not deprecate the old tags', use of the new tags is 'recommended but not mandatory'...whatever that means.<br></div></blockquote><div>It means that highway=bus_stop usage and support, while completely ignoring new<br></div><div>tags introduced by PTv2 is fully compatible with PTv2.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Yes, supporting just highway=bus_stop, railway=tram_stop, amenity=bus_station<br></div><div>and completely ignoring public_transport=platform, public_transport=station and<br></div><div>so on is one of possible ways for implementing approved PTv2 proposal.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Yes, PTv2 is not a well written proposal.<br></div><div><br></div><div>No, I am not entirely sure why it was done this way (I have some theories but...)<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>2. People with a preference for the old tags see that as an excuse to keep using them<br></div></blockquote><div>Simple tags are fully PTv2 compatible.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>3. Consumers see that as an excuse to not support the new schema, even after 8 years of people requesting it - <a href="https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/311">https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/311</a><br></div></blockquote><div>Supporting simple tags (and only simple tags) are fully compatible with approved PTv2 proposal.<br></div><div>Simple tags are also more popular and simpler to use.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>5. Both sets of tags have to be documented, making the documentation more verbose than it might be.<br></div><div>They should coexist...for a transitional phase. But it has to be just that - a _transition_, not a permanent inconsistent mess.<br></div></blockquote><div>Note that it is extremely rare in OSM to actually transition tags. <br></div><div>waterway=wadi still have more than 5000 uses.<br></div><div>Even highway=unsurfaced still have some uses.<br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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