<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I understand your point of view as developer, but OSM is a free database where everyone has the right to add its geographical information.</div><div>This helps innovation, everyone can update the database the way it needs without to lose energy in discussion with an international board.</div><div><br></div><div>Nobody is in charge of tag definitions.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The people in tagging list or even more on the wiki are pushing too much their point of view on the "good" way to tag. And this deprecated banner is a very good example.</div><div>Who's in charge of tag definition ? The "community" which means everyone and no one, there is no board, no elected members, no expert for this subject.<br></div><div>Too many times I read that a tag is deprecated/recommended, but by who ? Well, by few people on a mailing, on a talk wiki page, on a bug tracker.</div><div>This result of fight on wiki which is very very very boring, and the winner is just the one who has more time to lose.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The wiki should be only about usage, not about the "good" way to tag.</div><div>So instead of saying « this tag is deprecated » we should say « some people consider this tag as deprecated ».</div><div><br></div><div>Regards.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le lun. 15 mars 2021 à 15:09, Sören Reinecke via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr">Hello all,<br><br><div dir="ltr">I see on the wiki sometimes the following message above wiki pages describing deprecated tags/keys:<br><blockquote><div><p><i>This feature has been labeled as <b>deprecated</b>. The recommended replacement is: <tt dir="ltr" style="background-color:rgb(238,238,255);background-repeat:repeat;background-image:none;background-size:auto;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:changing_table" title="Key:changing table" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">changing_table</a>=*</tt>.<br> The reason is documented in <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features" title="Deprecated features" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deprdeprecated ecated features</a>.
You are still free to continue to use or interpret this tag as you see
fit since OpenStreetMap does not have “banned features”.
</i></p>
<i><b>Under no circumstances should you (semi-)automatically change
“deprecated” tags to something else in the database on a large scale
without conforming to the <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct" title="Automated Edits code of conduct" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Automated Edits code of conduct</a>. Any such change will be reverted.</b></i></div></blockquote>
</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Florimond Berthoux</div></div>