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

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

Tomas,

If you believe that your argument in favor of tagging reservoirs as landuse
is strong, then you should have no objection to placing this question up
for a community vote, and allowing the community the freedom to decide.


On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 8:01 AM Tomas Straupis <tomasstraupis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2020-12-16, tr, 01:32 Brian M. Sperlongano rašė:
> > The iD editor preset appears to use water=reservoir while the JOSM
> > preset appears to use landuse=reservoir.
>
>   Not entirely correct.
>   * JOSM gives freedom to mappers and supports BOTH.
>   * iD forces to use water=reservoir and evenmore pushes users to
> change tagging by disguise of "upgrade" - therefore even mappers who
> do not understand/know the difference are inclined to change the
> tagging. <- this is the reason for current stats
>
>   My understanding is that given landuse=reservoir is the original
> water schema, the new one should show some benefits to replace the
> original one? Or we do not care about consistency and simply go on
> with replacing very prominent schemas for no good reason?
>
>   My take is that:
>   * landuse=reservoir is better compared to natural=water+water=x
> because it pushes mappers to make distinction for these
> GIS/Cartographically very different classes of water. Therefore if
> landuse=reservoir is deprecated tagging will be worse.
>
>   What are the benefits of water=reservoir?
>   Given that full scope of proposal to put all water classes under
> natural=water (the purpose which is disadvantageous from
> GIS/Cartography perspective) have failed and we're now only talking
> about two classes of water (natural and man made), and classes which
> are very different and therefore should not be merged.
>
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