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

[manday at openmail.cc]

Quoting Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com>:
> (I suppose you mean by "redundant" that they have the same meaning)
Yes.

> And for intuitivity, waterway=riverbank to me seems better than water=river
I'll speak my mind here and say that I think that you feel like that  
because of habit. For me, the opposite is the case; designating how an  
area is covered, in water, no matter how fast it travels, immediately  
brings up the association with lakes. Using something called `way`  
(obviously meant in the directional sense) to map out that area is  
less intuitive. But that's just my view.

> A different thing would be an automated mass-edit, combined with a massive
> information campaign to all mappers, that they have to switch habits for a
> frequent tagging situation.
That people from the "old school" will have to break habit is an  
undeniable point. I think with iD already using the 2011 method and a  
JOSM patch easily provided this does not require a massive information  
campaign, though.


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