[Tagging] Deprecation - waterway=riverbank vs water=river

[Volker Schmidt]

Thnks Tomas for your, admittedly not very polite, words.
But content-wise I am with you

Volker

On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 15:48, Tomas Straupis <tomasstraupis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2021-02-10, tr, 16:28 Marc_marc rašė:
> > this has already been voted (84% in favour) in 2011 [1]
> > the problem is therefore not the idea but the interminable transition
> > period and the inevitable "not of the same opinion as the result of the
> > vote)
>
>   The "voting" in wiki is totally non representative therefore it
> means absolutely nothing (or as we can see are damaging).
>   Especially when we take into account that these proposals there
> created by people with 0 experience in fields that matter.
>
>   It is very sad and disturbing to see that OpenStreetMap fails to
> implement at least one of the safeguards against incompetent and
> destructive actions:
>   a) require at least minimal experience
>   b) provide hard limits on when some tagging can be changed or not
>
>   This leads to a classic situation of *** with a grenade decimating
> perfectly working parts of the system and there is no way to prevent
> that.
>   Like "deprecate 100000's of usages of landuse=reservoir, deprecate
> 100000's of usage of waterway=riverbank, deprecate 100000's of usages
> of landuse=forest", what is next? highway=*?
>
> --
> Tomas
>
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