[OSM-newbies] Highway=stile vs Barrier=stile

[Dave Stubbs]

2009/1/11 Skratz_b <Skratz_b at yahoo.com>:
> Dave Stubbs wrote:
>> 2009/1/2 xeen <aka.xeen at gmail.com>:
>>> Never tag for the renders.
>>
>>
>> Feel free to tag for the renderers.
>>
>> When people talk about not tagging for the renderers, what they
>> generally mean is don't mis-tag just to get something rendered.
>
> no, they don't.
>


True, but they should. Anything else is just meaningless.


>> This is not the case here: highway=stile is a completely legitimate
>> way of tagging a stile.
>
> no, it isn't, its deprecated.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features
>
> The term deprecation is applied to features that are superseded and
> should be avoided.


That's only if you agree tags can be deprecated. I don't. Neither do
many other people in the project. Deprecation implies and requires
many things which we don't have, such as a controlled versioning
system to phase them out, and most importantly, tags which were
precated in the first place.

Deprecation means nothing, and is simply a word that someone on the
wiki has decided to use after some other people on the wiki decided to
use a different tag name.

highway=stile is still a completely legitimate way of tagging a stile.

Google the mailing lists for the many conversations that have been had
on this issue.

Dave