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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Apr 28, 2020, 21:27 by marc_marc_irc at hotmail.com:

> 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.
>
It is not impossible, but you need convince people to deprecate old tag.
See 
amenity=emergency_phone -> emergency=phone
where rendering change followed tagging change
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