That inertia of obsoleted legacy has everything to do with the fact we discourage mechanical edits. If somebody were to fix all those building=entrance to become entrance=main on nodes, their changesets would probably be reverted. So why even bother? It's more fun to map new stuff than to fix stuff that nobody sees anyway...
Polyglot 2016-03-05 7:55 GMT+01:00 Marc Gemis <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Warin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Because something has been in existence does not mean it cannot ever be > > changed! > > Consider the power sub station ... that was gradually changed to a new > > tagging scheme. > > But it can take years :-(, > > 1/4 of the sub_station/substation tags are still sub_station: [1] > > Another obsolete tag that is still is "in use" is building=entrance, > see [2] still over 40.000 places usign a tag that has been obsoleted > over 4 years ago.(*) > Legacy tags are hard to get rid of. > > m. > > > [1] > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/power=sub_station/power=substation > [2] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/building=entrance/entrance > > (*) I think it's over 4 years, the wiki page mentions "overtaken in 2012". > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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