[Tagging] Marking waterway=brook as deprecated and problematic

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

I support this deprecation.

I note that there are 2.6M instances of waterway=stream + intermittent=yes,
compared to 2,000 instances of waterway=brook, a 1,300 to 1 ratio.  Also,
it appears that waterway=stream+intermittent=yes is an exact replacement of
waterway=brook.

In general I would be in favor of a policy of speedy deprecation of any
cases where there is a clear substitution available, the lesser tag was not
approved via proposal, and the usage ratio between the two tagging systems
(based on comparison of exact tag combinations) is above some number (like
100:1 or perhaps even as low as 10:1).

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 8:12 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> waterway=brook has minimal use and plenty of issues
>
> See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Dbrook
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:waterway%3Dbrook
>
> Therefore I marked it as deprecated.
>
> If anyone has counterarguments to any of issues raised in 2015 - it is a
> good moment
> to raise them.
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