Having started this thread, perhaps I should just add a further thought: Whether or not tags in general should be deprecated (and btw, this bit of jargon is spreading through cyberspace - 'discontinued' is almost the same and a bit clearer for non-native English speakers?), I have s ort of feeling that it is a bit early to have added highway=stile to the deprecated features list. Perhaps this step should not have been taken until the major renderers (such as osmarender) had caught up with the newer barrier=stile? And until a robot had changed the very large number of existing highway=stile tags to barrier=stile?
For the moment I am inclined to use both tags to get the best of both worlds! Mike Harris -----Original Message----- From: Dave Stubbs [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 11 January 2009 16:16 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Highway=stile vs Barrier=stile 2009/1/11 Skratz_b <[email protected]>: > Dave Stubbs wrote: >> 2009/1/2 xeen <[email protected]>: >>> Never tag for the renders. >> >> >> Feel free to tag for the renderers. >> >> When people talk about not tagging for the renderers, what they >> generally mean is don't mis-tag just to get something rendered. > > no, they don't. > True, but they should. Anything else is just meaningless. >> This is not the case here: highway=stile is a completely legitimate >> way of tagging a stile. > > no, it isn't, its deprecated. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features > > The term deprecation is applied to features that are superseded and > should be avoided. That's only if you agree tags can be deprecated. I don't. Neither do many other people in the project. Deprecation implies and requires many things which we don't have, such as a controlled versioning system to phase them out, and most importantly, tags which were precated in the first place. Deprecation means nothing, and is simply a word that someone on the wiki has decided to use after some other people on the wiki decided to use a different tag name. highway=stile is still a completely legitimate way of tagging a stile. Google the mailing lists for the many conversations that have been had on this issue. Dave _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
