[Tagging] Was there every a proposal for the disused:key=* / abandoned:key=* lifecycle prefixes?

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Thu Sep 26 16:30:21 UTC 2019


Am Do., 26. Sept. 2019 um 18:26 Uhr schrieb Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com>:

> Tagging two main features on one object isn't good practice anyway (see
>> wiki page One feature, one OSM element).
>>
>>>
>> True.  It's not good practice.  But it happens.  Postel's Law, aka the
> Robustness Principle, ought
> to apply: people shouldn't do it, but handle it correctly anyway.
>
>



it is not good practice because there is no way to handle it "correctly",
it is ambiguous and you cannot tell from the data what is meant (you may
guess, but it remains just a guess).

Cheers,
Martin
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