[Tagging] Extremely long Amtrak route relations / coastline v. water

[Dave F]

On 22/11/2020 22:27, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> Exactly. It also shows how we in OSM traditionally make decisions 
> about tagging. An idea to change tagging practice was suggested - on 
> an open channel for everyone to read and comment on without hurdles 
> and with an archive that allows us now to read up on things years 
> later. It was discussed and arguments and reasoning were provided both 
> for and against the idea and based on that we reached consensus that 
> it was a bad idea and it was abandoned.

Yes, but the demand was still made & the solution of writing competent 
code to enable the proposal was never implemented, so your point is?

DaveF