[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Deprecate healthcare=pharmacy

[Joseph Eisenberg]

But healthcare=pharmacy was never proposed.

It was added by a preset in iD.

At the time the key “healthcare=“ was proposed, the idea of changing
amenity=pharmacy was opposed by several mappers during the RFC period (in
2010), so the idea to change to shop=pharmacy was dropped.

—Joseph Eisenberg

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:28 PM Marc M. <marc_marc_irc at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Le 28.04.20 à 19:14, Joseph Eisenberg a écrit :
> > The original key amenity=* is a reasonable choice. This has been
> > confirmed with extensive usage of amenity=pharmacy by mappers and
> > database users:
>
> egg & chiken issue :
>
> a proposal to depreciate a heavily used tag is rejected because some
> people think that heavily used tags should be immutable, as long as they
> are heavily used. so proposals do it in 2 steps: the new tag is proposed
> as a complement during a transition period.
>
> Contributors who want to see their addition on the default rendering
> should continue to add the old tag. if they don't, someone else will. so
> the old tag will never decrease.
>
> Default style guardians have a "no aliases" dogma, making it impossible
> to change tags.
>
> If the "default style" was a tag, a RFC "depreciated no alias dogma"
> should be nice !
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
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