[OSM-talk] [OSM Fork] paths and roads and approval, oh my

[john at jfeldredge.com]

The word you want is deprecate, not depreciate.  Depreciate means "to go down in monetary value".

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Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM Fork] paths and roads and approval, oh my
From  :mailto:deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Date  :Fri Jan 14 03:43:26 America/Chicago 2011


On 14 January 2011 19:24, NopMap <ekkehart at gmx.de> wrote:
> No. I am making the assertion that the most important problems cannot be
> solved by mass retagging, thus contradicting JohnSmittys earlier statement
> that the "lack of a mass retagging policy was the weakness" rather than the
> lack of an approval process.

And you completely missed my original comment then, not only is a
policy needed on how to depreciate existing tags, such as the flow
control thread was talking about combining various things that control
the flow of water with some additional new tags, but you also need to
be able to depreciate existing tags, give people advance notice of the
change, dual tag if possible and finally be able to mass retag in the
database.

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