[OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2016-06-20 11:34 GMT+02:00 Tomas Straupis <tomasstraupis at gmail.com>:

> > actually the way it was before HAD big issues, you could not even state
> if
> > something was a lake or just the basin of a fountain (most kind of water
> > areas just mapped as natural=water).
>
>   Everything what can be mapped with new water schema can be (and is)
> mapped with old schema.
>


no, or at least not with the same semantic detail (one example is in the
text you have cited above)




>
>   The problem with newbies adding everything as natural=water did not
> go away. Now most iD edits create natural=water|water=pond even if it
> is a reservoir or a lake. So once again - no ontological difference
> here.



Now you are mixing up tag semantics (what can be expressed with the tags)
with people not applying them correctly (e.g. supposedly for editing
software weaknesses), and then draw the conclusion that the tags are bad.

Cheers,
Martin
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