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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Dec 13, 2020, 19:53 by dieterdreist at gmail.com:

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>> On 13. Dec 2020, at 18:49, Tomas Straupis <tomasstraupis at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  Introducing duplicate and unused schema (especially as the only
>> option) is not a good IT decision, basic analysis should have shown
>> that. But in case of id it was technology leading functionality and
>> thus leading users when in IT it must be the other way round -
>> usage/requirements must lead technical decisions. That is IT BASICS.
>> Lack of such understanding is the reason why I claim iD developers
>> lacked basic IT knowledge
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> it is indeed well documented that there was a period in iD development where the developers occasionally  (initially without actively communicating it and later openly and deliberately) dismissed the existing tagging wiki docs and mailing list and tag stats, but I think it should be mentioned that it was the former developer. Brian, maybe this was before you started to follow the lists. You can browse through older closed iD tickets to see some discussion, there’s also a wiki page about the topic: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ID/Controversial_Decisions
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Yes, it happened. I considered some decisions as problematic.

But it was not about IT basic, IT knowledge, IT decisions or anything like that.

If someone complains about IT knowledge while the actual complaint
is about tagging presets then people will be very confused.

BTW, iD presets were recently extracted into 
https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema
to 100% decouple preset decisions that are not 
programming related for programming tasks of making editor.
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