[Tagging] Proposed removal of rendering support for natural=marsh in Openstreetmap-carto style

[Joseph Eisenberg]

This change has now been made:
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/3829

When the next release happens, probably in the next month,
natural=marsh will no longer be rendered in the Openstreetmap-carto
style, used on the "Standard" layer for openstreetmap.org.

This feature has been listed as deprecated for several years, with the
recommended replacement being  natural=wetland + wetland=marsh

Most features with this tag have not been reviewed for several years;
check if there are any in your local area which need updating.

- Joseph

On 8/1/19, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've proposed removing the rendering of natural=marsh in
> Openstreetmap-carto, the rendering stylesheet used for the "standard"
> map layer on openstreetmap.org
>
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/3829
>
> The common tagging for a marsh is natural=wetland + wetland=marsh as
> with other types of wetland.
>
> According to the wiki, natural=marsh has not been recommended at least
> since January 2009:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:natural%3Dmarsh&oldid=217946;
> and since 2016 the page has specified that this tag is deprecated:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Anatural%3Dmarsh
>
> Since 2009, wetland=marsh has shown steadily increasing usage. It is
> now used 130,000 times, compared to less than 10k remaining uses of
> natural=marsh.
>
> Please comment at github if there are any objections to this change or
> other comments:
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/3829
>