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

[Marc_marc]

Le 12.02.21 à 16:18, Martin Machyna a écrit :
> I don't see any advantage to keep both other than someone's personal
> convenience.

I think the debate should be splited in two, especially since at least
one person is playing on both sides to say that at the same time there
is no problem to have a fragmentation since all the tools manage both
schemes and at the same time that it is very expensive to eliminate one
of the 2 schemes because some of these own tools only manage one schéma.

Unfortunately, apart from discussion, there is no way to make a 2-step
proposal:

1) in favor or against the merging of the 2 schemes into a single one

argument in favor: reducing the loss of human time, increasing coherence
and therefore quality

argument against:
- communication (this is a point that needs to be improved) is obviously
more time-consuming in the short term than the status quo.
- tools managing only one of the 2 will see their defect even more
visible depending on whether the remaining schema is the supported one
or the other (and in my opinion, it is not a argument against so much to
see the "design errors" rather than "if not too many complaints, do
nothing").
- the existing old books are frightening to some. (against argument:
if you type a tag in any correct editor, it tells you that it is
deprecated, so everyone knows how to update easily)

argument neither for nor against: it will be necessary to carry out a
mass operation so that the gain above can be made, I'm willing to take
care of it.

2) to choose the new scheme on the basis of the advantages/disadvantages
of each of them and no longer on the basis of "should fragmentation be
maintained or not".