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

[Christoph Hormann]

On Thursday 11 February 2021, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> I’d also like to add: the proposal dealt mostly with the introduction
> of the water-key for refining natural=water, the idea to deprecate at
> the same time waterway=riverbank was coupled to this [...]

For those who won't take the time to read up on the proposal process 
back then and choose to believe the fake news circulated here - the 
water details proposal never deprecated the use of waterway=riverbank.  
From the beginning of the proposal throughout the voting process:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features/Water_details&oldid=616118

it clearly stated:

"Deprecates" means "is equivalent for all purposes to". For example, 
landuse=reservoir should be rendered exactly like natural=water + 
water=reservoir. There are too many uses of the current tagging scheme, 
and we don't want massive retagging and edit wars. 

The irony is that those who now want to justify their ideas of an 
authoritarian tagging system in OSM with mass edits to enforce 
compliance by pointing to the water details proposal are pointing to a 
proposal that explicitly said not to do so.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
https://www.imagico.de/