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

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 at 21:49, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Not arguing, just trying to clarify how to do things, thanks!

Please have a look at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:amenity%3Ddojo.

I was working on clearing up OSM Notes yesterday, & found one where
somebody asked for a Muay Thai centre to be mapped. Using iD, enter
"martial" & it brings up that dojo tag.

So, it doesn't appear to have ever been discussed on here, or voted on, &
from the comments on that page, should never have been an amenity= in the
first place, but what do we now do to "fix" it?

Do I start a proposal to deprecate that tag (which incidentally, I couldn't
actually care less about, as I'm not interested in any form of martial
arts!) & move the 5000 uses across to leisure=sports centre / hall +
sport=martial_arts (~750 uses) (or any of the other 8 specific types of
martial art also listed for a total of ~1750 uses!), fight it through
against undoubtedly some vocal opposition, & *maybe* get a vote approved to
do so?

Just mark it as deprecated in favour of leisure=, & ask iD to please change
their preset?

Do nothing, & leave it as SEP (Someone Else's Problem!)?

Thanks

Graeme
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