Thanks for your support! I’ve marked the tag <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway=facility> as deprecated.
Sincerely, gymate > On 8 Apr 2024, at 01:04, stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > > An interesting concept: "emoji-supported!" While I'm not disagreeing, I > find it a novel approach...interestingly new and "not wrong." > > The reason for my "support" (to deprecate...hm, wasn't my original intent, > but I'm nodding my head that deprecation might be a good idea) was because I > have always found the concept of railway=facility to be daunting: somewhat > confusing, a little redundant. However, as similar kinds of "perhaps in > Germany they need this" or "there are places in the world where rail is > simply done differently, including in how we capture that in OSM and/or > render it in ORM, so I can see how a particular tag or scheme might allow > some flexible tagging to encompass rail tagging so it is harmonious in the > whole world." A local example in North American rail tagging is > reporting_marks=*, which is sort of like operator:short=* but is widely used > for far more than simply "tracks and infrastructure," it can is even used on > individual rail cars / wagons (in Canada, USA, Mexico)...but I digress. > > Upon consideration, I am supportive of deprecation of the railway=facility > tag, as I continue to find it confusing and redundant, but I have been > "keeping an open mind" that it may be needed elsewhere. Now, what I hear is > that it "seemed like a good idea at the time, but now, not so much." That's > OK: we do put erasers on the ends of pencils. > > I also seem to be now preferring discussion in our community Discourse forum > rather than this mail-list, although I answered here for "consistency." > Thank you for good dialog and discussion, everybody. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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