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

[Richard Welty]

On 1/2/13 2:23 PM, Mike N wrote:
> 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.
the data consumer lag is one of the nagging issues in OSM. with any new 
tagging approach, there is always
the issue of when the data consumers will catch up, and there are a 
bunch of data consumers, way more than
just the default mapnik rendering on opestreetmap.org and Nominatim 
(important alternatives include
mkgmap, OsmAnd, and a few others.)

so i am always kind of straddling the fence on one of these. right now i 
have a JOSM preset for fire hydrants
that populates both amenity=fire_hydrant and emergency=fire_hydrant. i 
suppose it's time to drop amenity=,
i think the data consumers that care have migrated.

richard