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

[Tomas Straupis]

2021-02-12, pn, 06:12 Michael Patrick <geodesy99 at gmail.com> rašė:
>  INRE: " Coders must adapt to business requirements not the other way round."
> See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
>
> Information Architecture is a two way street. Business requirements rarely
> acknowledge the technical constraints of the software environment, so they
> have to inform one another. And with a volunteer workforce, the coders
> don't 'have' to listen to anybody. Which is probably a feature, not a bug in OSM.

  Technical constraints may influence requirements, but not lead. IT
experts usually would be people who used to be coders so they will
know what is doable and what is not. In my practice it is usual that
the coder would say "not possible, too hard" and then I would have to
point the finger at this and that to show how to do it easy and
quickly with the least amount of code possible.

  Continuing with your comedy example I will give this example, which
is 1 to 1 to "lets put all water under natural=water as that way it
will be easier to write some queries":

  "A janitor in a brewery* informs the brewmaster that from now on
sterility will not be maintained in the brewery as that way it will be
much easier for the janitor to do his work".

* - for beer geeks: this is about brewery brewing "common" beers ;-)

-- 
Tomas