On Oct 7, 2022, at 12:22 AM, Davidoskky via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: >> But I am very dubious about deprecation of amenity=drinking_water, even >> if technically possible. >> >> Yes, I agree with Mateusz: I would find deprecation of >> amenity=drinking_water to be highly problematic. It is a very >> long-established tag.
> I also agree with this, I don't think it would be appropriate to substitute > amenity=drinking_water at the moment, since it is a working tag and it is > quite affirmed. No reason to deprecate it in favour of some new and rather > unknown tags. > > If nothing else, I feel that amenity=drinking_water is currently the best > working tag among all the ones discussed. > > What I'd like is a stabilization and clear definition of all the other tags > so that they could actually get in use. > > If these other tags get adopted by the community, then the deprecation of > amenity=drinking_water might be discussed, but this is definitely not the > right moment. > > Overall, I'd like to have a discussion about how to regularize > amenity=fountain, man_made=water_tap and man_made=drinking_fountain in order > to remove all this overlap among those tags and providing a more sensible and > less confusing tagging scheme. And so (as you, Davidoskky are a "primary recipient" I had in mind as I wrote it), I explicitly please refer you here [1]: (and thank you, and thanks to all for continuing to read this almost-tedious thread). I'm glad we do this, sometimes tiring and sometimes irritating it can be, but it is very much worth it. Let's remember: there is a LOT going on in refining / improving / extending tagging. It can be hard work. [1] https://lists.osm.org/pipermail/tagging/2022-October/065780.html _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
