[Tagging] Deprecacations

Paul Allen pla16021 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 26 23:46:10 UTC 2020


On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 at 23:35, stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:

>
> I'm finding https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Deprecated_features which expounds
> on what we seem to document now.  Is that the entirety of what we document?
>

It seems to me that the cited wiki page omits a possibility for deprecation.
That is where a new tag has been introduced where the old tag is
perfectly adequate, in wide use, supported by software tools, etc.
Unlikely, but possible if somebody is unaware of the old tag so
invents a new one and uses it.  In such a case we would deprecate
the new tag, not the old one.

Just because it's new, that doesn't make it better, especially if
it doesn't do anything the old tag does.

-- 
Paul
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