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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dec 27, 2020, 00:00 by zelonewolf@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>But in the spirit of free tagging, I would not be in favor of automatically deprecating tagging that someone has deliberately documented, merely because it has low usage.<br></div></div></blockquote><div>Definitely, "low usage" on its own is never sufficient. Nearly every single tag started with low usage<br></div><div>and every was used for the first time at some point.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Local language translations of English tags is an interesting edge case that I hadn't considered. I'd be in favor of a general policy for deprecating those<br></div></div></blockquote><div>I think that we de facto have it (at least for ones that are clear duplicates, sometimes you have<br></div><div>local terms with no English equivalent)<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div> if this is a real thing that's happening on any meaningful scale and not just a hypothetical.<br></div></div></blockquote><div>It is happening but it is routinely caught early.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dboutique">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dboutique</a> is one of rare cases where it <br></div><div>become problematic (mostly because it was also considered as a valid shop type)<br></div><div>"in many places this tag is widely, but wrongly used to tag shops
unrelated to clothing<br></div><div>as in French speaking areas "boutique" is commonly
part of a shop name"<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Perhaps the time is ripe to try to document a community stance on deprecation (if that hasn't already been done).<br></div></div></blockquote><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features</a> is likely a good place to<br></div><div>amend if something is missing/mismatching<br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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