Before we use some strong words lets take a look at the issue: according to taginfo maxspeed:wet is used 602 times. You may subtract one or two hundred as I added them. So we are talking about a tag that's currently used less than 500 times and without a known (at least I dont know one) application. As such a speed limit is quite common people either didn't care enough to tag it or maxspeed:wet was just a try. Also please don't forget that maxspeed:wet is up to this second completely undocumented.
You (Pieren) are right if you say, that all things should be put on the table before voting. Put I also understand Ole, because if he would have written that maxspeed:wet should be deprecated I bet that a few people would have objected - people who have never used maxspeed:wet before or even heard about it ;-) As I already wrote: a significant number of maxspeed:wet are from me. So if this tag will be deprecated I have some additional work to do and retag them. But that's life: things change. Sometimes even facts change. regards, Martin 2012/12/4 Pieren <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Ronnie Soak > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Are you against changing things in general ... ? > > Not if the intent is clearly to deprecate an existing tag. I'm against > liars writing in the wiki that they won't change any existing tags > until their proposal is accepted. > I agree that changing or deprecating existing tags is very hard in > OSM, especially when the new tag is not a real improvement or > reasoning behind. For instance, the "highway=gate" replaced by > "barrier=*" or the "highway=ford" replaced by "highway=*" + "ford=yes" > have been well accepted where "highway=bus_stop" by > "public_transport=platform" is not. > Trying to deprecate a tag is not "a minor issue". > > Pieren > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
