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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Feb 11, 2021, 13:35 by osm at imagico.de:

> 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. 
>
To be more exact: it stated "water=river deprecates waterway=riverbank"
and then redefined what deprecates mean

> "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 result is extreme confusion :(

Stating "A deprecates B" in proposal and them immediately
redefining what "deprecates" mean is problematic.

Or maybe what it means for tag to be deprecated changed since that time?
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