[Tagging] Feature proposal - Approved - deprecate embassy=embassy

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Simon, can you stop the insinuations please? "claqueurs" and "canvassed votes"...? There's no need to go there.

On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 12:43:34 +0100, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

> 
> Am 03.02.2022 um 11:58 schrieb Frederik Ramm:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 03.02.22 10:12, Simon Poole wrote:
> >> So nothing has been approved.
> > Let's say, something has been approved but it is without consequence for
> > OSM.
> 
> The issue is naturally, that while nobody cares about this tag value and 
> even wasting a couple of bits on it is silly, it serves as a precedence 
> that the proposal process, clearly intended for devising new tagging, is 
> just as valid for hard deprecation.
> 
> See the circular arguments around the deprecation page on the wiki for 
> how this works: add a couple of tags that nobody uses or even ever used 
> to the page, that will naturally not get any opposition, then turn 
> around and point to it as "proof" that there is an approved process for 
> deprecating tags.
> 
> Essentially what Florian and his claquers have established with this and 
> the parcel locker farce, is that with a handful of canvassed votes you 
> can hard change widely used tagging with no regard to data consumers and 
> the wider OSM community for no more serious reason than a minor 
> imperfection in the categorisation of the tagging.
> 
> Yes, that is of consequence for OSM.
> 
> Simon
> 
> >
> > Bye
> > Frederik
> >
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