Hi. I found that proposal, which was converted in RFC and finally accepted by voting. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Power_generation_refinement#Single-site_facitilies
It's clearly written there's a spelling problem around substation vs sub station. In fact, power=substation seems to be better than power=sub_station since a sub station is a sub marine facility. Should we take care of that? 2013/1/22 Ole Nielsen <[email protected]> > On 22/01/2013 00:49, John Sturdy wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:33 PM, François Lacombe > > <francois.lacombe@telecom-**bretagne.eu<[email protected]>> > wrote: > >> So we have the same opinion so far, that's great! > > > > And from me, to. > > > >> Just a question about the OSM sense of "deprecated". > >> Why can't we directly display a big message on each "never use this" > tag to > >> inform mappers that they would not use this key/value any more? > >> => May administrators could build a template? > > > > Because there is no one point at which that could be displayed, just > > several different map editor programs, each maintained by different > > people. > > Yes, there is unfortunately no simple 'delete' button for this. The tag > should of course be removed completely from the Map Features page, the > 'station' feature page should be flagged with a big warning that the tag is > deprecated. Links to it from other feature pages should also be removed. > That's the easy part. > It will be necessary to create a ticket for each of the popular editors > (JOSM, Potlatch2 etc) requesting "station" to be removed from the presets. > This may take some time depending on the developers. > > It may also be a good idea to post a message to "talk" list (not everybody > subscribes to the tagging list) and to some of the more popular fora > (especially the German forum). > > > > And also, there are several renderers (some with multiple stylesheets) > > which can each have different rules about what to display and what (by > > not having a rule to display it) to ignore. > > In this case it seems to be a minor problem as 'station' and 'sub_station' > are rendered the same way in Mapnik and probably most other renderers as > well. It will of course be a good idea to remove 'station' from the mapnik > stylesheet as that would cause the 'wrong' substations to disappear from > the map and in that way discourage mappers from using that old tag. But it > may be difficult to convince the stylesheet maintainers to do that as long > as the tag is still common in the database. > > Ole / polderrunner > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/tagging<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging> > -- *François Lacombe* francois dot lacombe At telecom-bretagne dot eu http://www.infos-reseaux.com
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