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    Well, maybe it helps if we take a look at both historical graphs:<br>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/landuse/education">https://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/landuse/education</a><br>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/landuse/school">https://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/landuse/school</a><br>
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    If we consider that around 3600 of those landuse=school results are
    (probably from) imports, that puts both tags in a different
    perspective.<br>
    Anyway, like most of us already know from recent discussions in this
    list, deprecation is viewed with great resistance and many hot
    discussions, and I just prefer not to go in that direction.<br>
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    Regards,<br>
    António.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Às 01:11 de 02/04/2021, Brian M.
      Sperlongano escreveu:<br>
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        <div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 11:38 PM stevea <<a
            href="mailto:steveaOSM@softworkers.com"
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            rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">"Usage rules," really.</blockquote>
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          <div>+1<br>
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          <div>If we were all sitting around a blank whiteboard 15 years
            ago, inventing the tagging ontology for OSM, I would happily
            go along with something like landuse=education (+
            education=school?) to describe "a plot of land with a school
            or schools on it".  However, the simple reality is:</div>
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          <div>amenity=school: 1.1 million tags</div>
          <div>landuse=school: 5,800 tags (mostly concentrated in 2-3
            countries)</div>
          <div>landuse=education: 745 tags</div>
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          <div>With those numbers, and widespread data consumer support,
            please accept the practical reality that amenity=school is
            the tagging used for educational landuse.  If anything, we
            should consider deprecating the two landuse values as they
            are likely to be missed by data consumers considering that
            they account for less than 1% of the total.</div>
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          <div>Since OSM lacks a technical mechanism for
            backwards-compatible tag renaming, we are "stuck with" tags
            that were poorly named or categorized.  I am against
            creating duplicate tagging schemes unless there is a
            specific value to be gained with new tagging that provides
            additional detail that cannot be achieved by extending the
            original tagging.  In cases where duplicate tagging schemes
            already exist, I am in favor of eliminating one of them. </div>
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