On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 10:16, Valor Naram <[email protected]> wrote: > > Deprecating "amenity" would hurt because it's a very important key. But I > have some suggestions: >
There are cases where amenity is an appropriate tag. Such as for amenities. 1. Keeping the "amenity" wiki page intact. > 2. Creating/extending pages for new keys e.g. Key:education > 3. Suggesting "education=*" instead of "amenity=education" on the > "amenity" wiki page. > 3.5 Persuading developers of editors to prefer education=* to amenity=* when mappers select "school," "university," etc. Many mappers rely on editor presets and will only over-ride what those presets offer if they disagree with the tags the editor gives them. 4. A transition period for changing the database and to aware other mappers > of it. > 4 is feasible ONLY if the new education=* offers are 1-for-1 correspondence with amenity=* for educational facilities. That is amenity=school can be directly and unambiguously replaced with education=* (possibly with sub-tags). There can be no "it depends" situations if a bulk edit is to take place. Otherwise it would have to be done on a case-by-case basis. -- Paul
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