[Tagging] RFC - Discourage railway=preserved

Stefan Keller sfkeller at gmail.com
Wed Apr 14 06:57:23 UTC 2021


> So you want to use railway=rail;preserved ?

For example.

> > Coming back to the proposal: Deprecating railway=preserved strenghtens the use of railway:preserved=yes
>  And that is why I am supporting it.

"railway:preserved=yes" is only half of a boolean, containing only
"yes / true - no use of "no".
Help that OSM database does not get detrimented by such tags.
Don't miss out +30 years of data modeling as explained in the
Namespace wiki page [1].
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~Stefan

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Namespace

Am Mi., 14. Apr. 2021 um 08:28 Uhr schrieb Mateusz Konieczny via
Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org>:
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> Apr 14, 2021, 00:07 by sfkeller at gmail.com:
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> (also, as railroad may be anyway match more than one of museum | touristic | model | heritage list - triggering the same problem again)
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> There are no problems with multiple values: It's simply
> key=VALUE1;VALUE2. See also cuisine=american;burger;italian:pizza.
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> So you want to use railway=rail;preserved ?
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> Coming back to the proposal: Deprecating railway=preserved strenghtens
> the use of railway:preserved=yes
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> And that is why I am supporting it.
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