[Tagging] Deprecating of leisure=common and leisure=village_green

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Fri Dec 8 01:51:30 UTC 2017


On 08-Dec-17 03:34 AM, Marc Zoutendijk wrote:
> From: Tom Pfeifer <t.pfeifer at computer.org <mailto:t.pfeifer at computer.org>>
>
>
>> On 05.12.2017 20:40, Marc Zoutendijk wrote:> Martin, did you see the 
>> pictures I have added to the
>> wiki? [1]
>> Nice pictures, but they belong onto the discussion page, as it is 
>> _not_ an 'alternative' use, it is
>> a use _against_ the original definition.
>
> They have been discussed:
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2017-January/030851.html
>
> My view (and not mine only, read the discussion) is that a wiki should 
> describe how a tag _is_used_ and not how it should be used.
>

Definition drift.

This would see the colour 'purple' redefined as 'blue'.

I am against it.

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My assumptions and a story of drift (fictional .. at least that is the 
intent):
A problem with "village_green" is that was not well defined.
Everyone initially concerned knew what it is and so assumed that the 
words "village green" would convey enough to be clear, after all they 
knew what it meant.
People elsewhere took the meaning to mean something else locally and 
used it.
These new uses outnumbered the old uses.
The new users change the wiki to incorporate their use - this is the 
numerically dominate use so it must be right.
And so the new definition is not what was meant for the old use, so the 
old features are now incorrectly tagged.

Thus OSM has a mess to sort out.
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