[Tagging] Drain vs ditch

[Hufkratzer]

On 10.02.2019 14:57, Eugene Podshivalov wrote:
> [...}
> *Variant #2*
> Combine "ditch" and "drain" tags into one.
> [...}
> Personally I lean toward variant 2 [...}

This would require to deprecate "drain" and remove it from the presets, 
otherwise we will continue to have 2 tags in the long run. As far as I 
know deprecating a tag is only possible if it's usage declines. 
Currently its usage increases steadily. How do you intend to change 
that? What is the incentive for the mapper to use "ditch" instead of 
"drain" from now on? I am not even sure that most mappers will notice 
the change on the wiki pages.

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