[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Approved - EV Charging Station Mapping

[Justin Tracey]

On 2023-05-02 10:14, Illia Marchenko wrote:
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> 2 May 2023, 16:52 Marc_marc <marc_marc at mailo.com 
> <mailto:marc_marc at mailo.com>>:
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>     Le 02.05.23 à 14:21, NKA mapper a écrit :
>      > The EV Charging Station Mapping
>      >
>     <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:EV_Charging_Station_Mapping <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:EV_Charging_Station_Mapping>> proposal is now approved
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>     I really wonder how we can approve a proposal that makes it impossible
>     to migrate from the old scheme to the new one when we see that even
>     those that allow it (power=sub_station) take over 10 years to migrate.
>     I wonder if a vote should not be planned in two stages:
>     - the idea: everyone was aware of the problem
>     - the implementation... that we should not vote as long as there is a
>     concrete problem (and here there were 2: redefinition of existing tag
>     and impossibility to select the objects of the old schema since the new
>     schema uses a tag identical to the previous one).
> 
>     bad day...
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> 
> What is the impossibility of migration? Just use man_made=charge_point 
> instead of amenity=charging_station for charging points. If the charging 
> point is already marked as amenity=charging_station, just change it to 
> man_made=charge_point.
> Regards,
> Illia.
> 

Their point is there's no way to tell when that's necessary without 
on-the-ground insight, and there is no way to tell when such insight is 
needed. Had the proposal broken it out into two new tags, there would be 
an indication of which objects need to be updated. With the approved 
tagging scheme, is this node tagged correctly, or has it just not been 
updated yet? There's no algorithmic way to tell, meaning it will be many 
years before everything that needs updating will get updated.