<div dir="ltr">Tomas,<br><br>Respectfully, I ask you to cease the pattern of name-calling, personal attacks, and insulting language used in this forum, and on project bug trackers[1][2].<br><br>Let's please assume good faith and be respectful while we discuss differences of opinion with an open mind - we are all here for the same reason - working together to create the best possible map for the world.<br><br><br>[1] <a href="https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/17874">https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/17874</a><br>[2] <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/6589">https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/6589</a><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 10:39 AM Tomas Straupis <<a href="mailto:tomasstraupis@gmail.com">tomasstraupis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">2020-12-13, sk, 16:13 Brian M. Sperlongano rašė:<br>
> 2019 was a turning point, and over the last two years, landuse=reservoir has<br>
> been on a steady decline, while water=reservoir continued its rapid growth.<br>
<br>
New/duplicate schema with water=reservoir only launched because iD<br>
coders decided to skip standard IT processes of product development<br>
(or were not familiar with the basics of IT) and simply went for what<br>
they personally liked, not what was better, and introduced<br>
water=reservoir as the only way to tag, all this at the time when<br>
water=reservoir usage was close to zero!<br>
<br>
And the only reason for change of stat starting 2019 is because<br>
coders of iD decided to lie to the users that landuse=reservoir is<br>
deprecated which it never was and started replacing landuse=reservoir<br>
under their highly controversial disguise of "upgrade tags".<br>
<br>
So the change of statistics is not the preference of mappers but<br>
preference of some nerds.<br>
<br>
> Is it time to more directly recommend that mappers favor natural=water + water=reservoir<br>
> *instead of* rather than *in addition to* landuse=reservoir?<br>
<br>
I would propose to deprecate water=reservoir and even more - add<br>
guards so that such pointless/nerdy duplicate standards would not be<br>
introduced in the future.<br>
<br>
Note that one of the main nerdy points of this schema was to have a<br>
possibility to write sql easier (somebody has problems with "and/or")<br>
and this would also require riverbanks to fall into this new water<br>
schema. And riverbank clearly does not fall into that even with iD<br>
lying about it too. Therefore the only point has failed and this<br>
stupidity is spreading havoc in tagging of such prominent water<br>
features for more than 10 years now.<br>
<br>
P.S. There is quite an easy solution to have a separate iD instance<br>
for beginners with correct tagging presets loaded.<br>
<br>
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