2010/11/22 Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]>: > > Tom Chance wrote: >> When that happens, the only logical course of action is to update the >> wiki documentation showing the new tags and removing the >> deprecated tags. It makes no sense to continue telling people about >> deprecated tags. > > Even accepting that there is such a thing as a "deprecated tag" (which I and > many others don't), the wiki is not just there as mapper documentation: it's > documentation for data users, too. > > If someone downloads a planet file and wants to know "what does this tag > mean?", they'll look for the documentation of that tag. So don't delete it.
as it's a Wiki and given the structure of OSM you would in any case have to look at all versions, and how long they were displayed, with which comments they were changed, which were the parallel discussions on the mailing lists, etc., and not just rely on the current wiki page for the feature ;-) cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
