[Tagging] Deprecacations

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Dec 27, 2020, 00:00 by zelonewolf at gmail.com:

> 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.
>
Definitely, "low usage" on its own is never sufficient. Nearly every single tag started with low usage
and every was used for the first time at some point.

> 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
>
I think that we de facto have it (at least for ones that are clear duplicates, sometimes you have
local terms with no English equivalent)

>  if this is a real thing that's happening on any meaningful scale and not just a hypothetical.
>
It is happening but it is routinely caught early.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dboutique is one of rare cases where it 
become problematic (mostly because it was also considered as a valid shop type)
"in many places this tag is widely, but wrongly used to tag shops unrelated to clothing
as in French speaking areas "boutique" is commonly part of a shop name"


> Perhaps the time is ripe to try to document a community stance on deprecation (if that hasn't already been done).
>
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features is likely a good place to
amend if something is missing/mismatching

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