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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dec 13, 2020, 16:35 by tomasstraupis@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>2020-12-13, sk, 16:13 Brian M. Sperlongano rašė:<br></div><blockquote><div>2019 was a turning point, and over the last two years, landuse=reservoir has<br></div><div>been on a steady decline, while water=reservoir continued its rapid growth.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>New/duplicate schema with water=reservoir only launched because iD<br></div><div>coders decided to skip standard IT processes of product development<br></div><div>(or were not familiar with the basics of IT) and simply went for what<br></div><div>they personally liked, not what was better<br></div></blockquote><div>This is 100% untrue, and you insult people. Stop making such things.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For start, iD authors (also ones that made decisions about tagging<br></div><div>presets that I consider to be mistakes and going against consensus)<br></div><div>had no problem with basics of IT and IT processes of product development.<br></div><div><br></div><div>water=reservoir was launched (created) in 2011<br></div><div>see <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_details">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_details</a><br></div><div>iD started in 2012 ( <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ID">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ID</a> )<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>, and introduced<br></div><div>water=reservoir as the only way to tag, all this at the time when<br></div><div>water=reservoir usage was close to zero!<br></div></blockquote><div>See <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/water=reservoir#chronology">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/water=reservoir#chronology</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Usage in January 2019 was about 200 000 already.<br></div><div><br></div><div>"water=reservoir usage was close to zero" is untrue<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div> And the only reason for change of stat starting 2019 is because<br></div><div>coders of iD decided to lie to the users that landuse=reservoir is<br></div><div>deprecated<br></div></blockquote><div>It is deprecated by 2011 proposal, see<br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_details#Deprecation">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_details#Deprecation</a><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div> So the change of statistics is not the preference of mappers but<br></div><div>preference of some nerds.<br></div></blockquote><div>Well, tagging mailing list and community that is engaged in voting<br></div><div>on tagging proposals is not very representative.<br></div><div><br></div><div>But if you care about deprecation decisions you must rely on<br></div><div>people that are engaged in such discussions.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>I would propose to deprecate water=reservoir<br></div></blockquote><div>Feel free to make a proposal that would<br></div><div>revert<br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_details#Deprecation">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_details</a><br></div><div>proposal. <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>BTW, you are AGAIN spreading false statements and claim that iD<br></div><div>invented water=reservoir. Please stop doing this.<br></div> </body>
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