Jul 21, 2020, 12:13 by em...@daniel-korn.de: > Am 21.07.2020 um 10:55 schrieb Tomas Straupis: > >> 2020-07-21, an, 11:20 dktue rašė: >> >>> Why do we need both variants and why don't we just say that >>> waterway=riverbank is preferred? >>> >> There is an original OpenStreetMap water schema with lakes as >> natural=water, reservoirs as landuse=reservoir, riverbanks as >> waterway=riverbank etc. It is a perfectly working schema. >> >> At some point there was a new schema proposed with a totally nerdy >> motivation "to make some sql's simpler". That new schema has no >> advantage in cartography, GIS or IT sense. It is totally NERDY. This >> nerdy scheme was ignored in the beginning but then came the iD which >> took a totally non-analytical and authoritarian attitude and not only >> chose to support nerdy water schema, but even decided to support ONLY >> it. And in recent year iD coders went even further and started lying >> to its users that original OpenStreetMap water schema is "deprecated' >> even when it never was. >> >> So this is the reason why we have two schemas. It is very >> unfortunate that there is no way to prohibit such nonsense nerdy >> schemas into OpenStreetMap :-( >> > So why can't the wiki state: "If you tag, then please do so using > waterway=riverbank" (as this is preferred by the *community*)? > Because despite claims mentioned above - there are also people preferring the second schema, it is not case of "iD developers vs community" like it is/was with some case.
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