[Talk-us] Adopt-a-highway representation in OSM

[Mike N]

On 1/2/2013 2:16 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
> in my experience, deprecated is a pretty official declaration that
> something shouldn't
> be done/used anymore. java developers like me are quite accustomed to
> seeing
> APIs we use suddenly coming up "deprecated", leading us to scramble to
> the docs
> to see what we're supposed to switch to now.

    I agree - I've already converted some of my local tagging away from 
a 'deprecated' tag, only to find out that none of the data consumers 
recognize the new tag.

   A better description would be "cross reference one or more alternate 
tags" for data consumers to expect and handle.