[Tagging] Deprecacations

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

That seems reasonable for barely-used and undocumented tags with a clear
alternative.  Especially in the case of things like obvious mistakes or
mispellings.  But in the spirit of free tagging, I would not be in favor of
automatically deprecating tagging that someone has deliberately documented,
merely because it has low usage.  At the least it should warrant a
discussion and/or a reach-out to the original author.  If something truly
has "become commonly used" then it warrants a more substantial
consideration and should not be deprecated without discussion.

Local language translations of English tags is an interesting edge case
that I hadn't considered.  I'd be in favor of a general policy for
deprecating those and would probably even support a mechanical edit to
translate them to English tags, if this is a real thing that's happening on
any meaningful scale and not just a hypothetical.

Perhaps the time is ripe to try to document a community stance on
deprecation (if that hasn't already been done).


On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 5:41 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

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>
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> Dec 26, 2020, 23:01 by zelonewolf at gmail.com:
>
> At this point in OSM, IMO we shouldn't mark anything deprecated short of
> an approved proposal to do so.
>
> What about tags with barely any use and not documented?
> Especially ones with clear alternatives?
>
> For example lets say that someone added many cases of oneway=true (maybe
> via
> import?).
>
> I think that it would be OK to create page documenting it as deprecated
> duplicate of
> oneway=yes, without going though full proposal process.
>
> If for some reason sklep=warzywniak (Polish for shop=greengrocer) would
> become
> commonly used (or someone even created wiki page for it) it would be OK to
> mark it as deprecated without wasting time on a proposal process.
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