Except cases where there is a clear agreement that some scheme is clearly preferable, but in such cases it is extremely rare for such scheme to gain comparable popularity.
Jul 21, 2020, 15:25 by vosc...@gmail.com: > Please let us not forget that the wiki is supposed to document what is used > in OSM. In this case it should say that two schemes exist, and, if we have > good numbers for the relative use, we can add that. > Putting an advice to prefer one or the other is not within the scope of the > wiki in such a situation > > On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 14:17, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <> > tagging@openstreetmap.org> > wrote: > >> >> >> >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>
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