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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jan 8, 2021, 08:59 by stefan.tauner@gmx.at:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 08:17:20 +0100 (CET)<br></div><div>Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>I set its status to deprecated as it<br></div><div><br></div><div>1) was already described as deprecated ("Please use natural=hot_spring instead")<br></div><div>2) competing tag is significantly more used<br></div><div><br></div><div>See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:spring:type%3Dhot<br></div><div><br></div><div>Feel free to revert that if someone disagrees<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am not strictly rejecting this but here are my 2ct:<br></div><div><br></div><div>There was a proposal for natural=hot_spring that was met with a lot of<br></div><div>criticism and was never put to vote. The usage numbers are 1:20 but<br></div><div>this has to put in perspective since iD has added support (only) for<br></div><div>natural=hot_spring so it is not really surprising that it has<br></div><div>significant more uses (I did not check though if chronology matches<br></div><div>that assumption).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Combined they have about 3500 uses. This is not prohibitively many to<br></div><div>manually check and change them to spring:type=hot (I have done similarly<br></div><div>laborious edits in the past). IMHO the only argument for not doing<br></div><div>that, and/or trying to standardize spring:type are the support by some<br></div><div>data users (I only know OSMand and that can easily be changed...).<br></div><div>I personally think that natural=hot_spring is a mistake (I have no<br></div><div>history with either of those tags whatsoever and only became aware of<br></div><div>them by your email but it seems obvious to me after skimming through<br></div><div>the proposal discussion).<br></div></blockquote><div>Good points.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have reverted setting deprecation status, set it to "in use",<br></div><div>removed claim that natural=hot_spring is strictly superior,<br></div><div>mentioned this tag as natural=hot_spring at its wiki page<br></div><div>and downgraded natural=hot_spring to "in use"<br></div><div><br></div><div>Though, if someones wants this tag to be used and win<br></div><div>with natural=hot_spring I would recommend making<br></div><div>proposal for it. Current trends are not good for it,<br></div><div>and it has no chance to win with natural=hot_spring<br></div><div>without something changing.<br></div><div><br></div><div>In this case going through <br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposal_process">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposal_process</a><br></div><div>seems the best idea, but maybe someone has a better idea.<br></div><div><br></div><div>(I am not planning to do this)<br></div> </body>
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