[Tagging] The saga of landuse=reservoir vs water=reservoir

Tomas Straupis tomasstraupis at gmail.com
Sun Dec 13 18:33:06 UTC 2020


2020-12-13, sk, 20:09 Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging rašė:
> 2020-12-13, sk, 19:18 Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging rašė:
> Mateusz, can you point out which of my claims is a lie?
>
> "iD coders decided to skip standard IT processes of product development
> (or were not familiar with the basics of IT)"

  Let's go back in time. It is 2012. iD developers are to add water
tagging schema to their newly baked editor. The candidates are IN
2012:
  1. landuse=reservoir - the only schema in activu use, widely used,
200K objects tagged, documentation written, tutorials written.
  2. water=reservoir - unused (5K? 10K?).
  iD developers decision: go with option 2. I do not see how such
decision could be counted as "IT-wise sound"?
  (my suspicion is that the reason was iD's tag layout being
tag+subtag and there water=reservoir was better suitable, but this is
just my speculation, if true that would be one more proof of lack of
IT experience)

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "coders of iD decided to lie to the users that landuse=reservoir is
> deprecated which it never was"
>
> It is deprecated by 2011 proposal, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_details#Deprecation

  Please read everything, not only the part you're interested. Zverik
agreed that it is NOT deprecated. And it was agreed in many many other
discussions that landuse=reservoir was NEVER deprecated.

> usage/requirements must lead technical decisions. That is IT BASICS.
>
> It was not an unused schema and it was proposed, approved and used before iD
> started using it and later aggressively promoting it.

  2012:
  landuse=reservoir - 200K,
  water=reservoir - 5K? 10K?

  Should we continue to argue in the dungeons of history without
thinking about the future?

  The problem is that it dragged for almost 10 years. Now ANY decision
will be bad. That is why decision is always postponed, but time will
not change anything. The hole is till there, there are no
rules/process to circumvent that. So the situation can repeat again.

-- 
Tomas



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