[OSM-talk] barrier=gate, run a script?

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On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Matthias Julius wrote:
> > Anyway, after a tag has been removed from Map Features
>
> Of course nobody would remove a tag from Map Features as long as it is
> still widely used! It seems that User:Sergionaranja was unclear about
> this and has accidentally removed highway=gate and others from Map
> Features (and indeed documented some barrier=* tags on the Map
> Features:highway template where they don't belong!). I have reverted
> that edit, and added a proper section for the "barrier" tag.
>
> > or clearly marked as depreciated
>
> There is no authority in OSM that has the power to mark anything as
> deprecated.
>
> I have modified the wording on the page "deprecated features" to clearly
> say that these are tags for which a replacement is recommended, not
> "deprecated tags that should no longer be used". Whoever put that
> wording in there, please note that you have *no* authority to tell
> people how they "should" tag things!
>
> I am also thinking about renaming the page altogether. There is simply
> no room for the word "deprecated" here. I'm just unsure about the new
> name. "Old features"? "Older features"?
>

Unfashionable Features?



>
> > and no new data has been added with that tag for
> > a good while (a year maybe) it is probably safe to convert existing
> > occurances to the new scheme and stop supporting the old one, IMHO.
>
> It is probably never "safe" but at some time one has to move on, we
> cannot support old stuff forever.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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