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

[Dave F]

On 11/02/2021 12:35, Christoph Hormann wrote:
>
> 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.

What was discussed 10 years ago is really irrelevant. It's the consensus 
today which counts. The 'far too many to change' is the true "fake news".

> 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.

I'm always curious as to why some are frightened of change.& have to 
hyperbole with the use of "authoritarian" to justify it. Discussing a 
proposal on a public forum can hardly be described as such.

DaveF