<HTML><BODY><div class="js-helper js-readmsg-msg"><div><div id="style_16150362782073990025_BODY"><div class="cl_050053"><div><div>DWG are the vandalisms police not an editorial body, Andy is just 1 out of 13 and i do not think we can </div><div>say DWG position is clear.</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features</a></div><div>A<span> </span><b>deprecated tag</b><span> </span>or<span> </span><b>deprecated feature</b><span> </span>is tagging that is recommended by OpenStreetMap community consensus for removal and replacement with other tagging.</div><div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; background-color:#ffffff; color:#202122; font-family:sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin-bottom:0.5em; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-top:0.5em; orphans:2; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px"><b>OpenStreetMap does not have "banned features", as anybody is allowed and encouraged to use<span> </span><a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like" data-title="Any tags you like">any tag they think is useful</a>.</b></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; background-color:#ffffff; color:#202122; font-family:sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin-bottom:0.5em; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-top:0.5em; orphans:2; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px"><table style="font-size: 14px; margin: 2px 103.9px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170) rgb(170, 170, 170) rgb(170, 170, 170) rgb(178, 34, 34); border-image: initial; background: rgb(255, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.25em; text-align: center;"><div style="width:52px"><img width="40" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Ambox_warning_pn.svg/40px-Ambox_warning_pn.svg.png" height="35" data-title="Warning" alt="Warning"></div></td><td style="border: none; padding: 0.25em; width: 753px; text-align: center;">Under no circumstances should you automatically (or semi-automatically) change "deprecated" tags to something else in the database on a large scale without conforming to the<span> </span><a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct" data-title="Automated Edits code of conduct">Automated Edits code of conduct</a>. Any such edits will be reverted.</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>> Thank you, Andy. DWG position is clear now:<br> >1. Organising mass worldwide removing of water=river and upgrading<br>>it to waterway=riverbank is totally fine with DWG.<br> >2. Following the same thinking the same goes with improving<br>>water=reservoir to landuse=reservoir.</div><div><br> </div><div class="mail-quote-collapse"><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid #0857A6;margin:10px;padding:0 0 0 10px;"><span>Saturday, March 6, 2021 6:46 AM -06:00 from Tomas Straupis <<a href="/compose?To=tomasstraupis@gmail.com">tomasstraupis@gmail.com</a>>:<br> </span><div><div id=""><div class="js-helper_mr_css_attr js-readmsg-msg_mr_css_attr"><div><div id="style_16150347810883910942_BODY_mr_css_attr">2021-03-06, št, 13:35 Andy Townsend rašė:<br>> The primary question here is on GENERAL ATTTITUDE of DWG to such incidents.<br>> In this case I'm trying to clarify: is Andy with his DWG hat on saying<br>> that organising pointless changes of tags is OK with DWG.<br><br>> If someone is organising a change between two tags that mean exactly the same<br>> thing, where have both been part of OSM for a very long time, and both are<br>> accepted by OSM data consumers as meaning exactly the same thing, then:<br>> <...><br><br> Thank you, Andy. DWG position is clear now:<br> 1. Organising mass worldwide removing of water=river and upgrading<br>it to waterway=riverbank is totally fine with DWG.<br> 2. Following the same thinking the same goes with improving<br>water=reservoir to landuse=reservoir.<br><br> >:-)<br><br>--<br>Tomas<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Tagging mailing list<br><a>Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div> <div> </div><div data-signature-widget="container"><div data-signature-widget="content"><div> </div></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div><div> </div></BODY></HTML>