[Tagging] When was landuse=reservoir deprecated ?

[Tobias Knerr]

On 06.06.2013 23:55, fly wrote:
> We should use both landuse and water. The first for the whole area and
> the later for the water area.
[...]
> Better use boolean (e.g. intermittent=yes/no).
> 
> Maybe editors should warn or silently change these tags.
> 
> Last but not least my question still remains. Why was it just set to
> abandoned without any prior discussion on this list ?

Because the "Water details" proposal¹ included the deprecation. It was
even mentioned on this list that the proposal included deprecation -
although learning which tags exactly were proposed for deprecation
required clicking the wiki link iirc. Still, the deprecations should not
be as a surprise to anybody participating here.

The proposal also notes that water=reservoir is supposed to be
synonymous to landuse=reservoir, which directly contradicts the
interpretation brought forward here.

Using intermittent=yes/no seems sensible, though - and it was also
mentioned in the "Water details" proposal.

Tobias

¹ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_details