Good point about "deprecated" and "obsolete". The status "deprecated" is much more common; it's been used 115 times and has a well-used list:
But "obsolete" is only used 6 times, and seems to mean the same thing as "deprecated". Perhaps we can just edit these 6 features and remove the status to simplify things? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Tag_descriptions_with_status_%22obsolete%22 Also, I've also only been able to find one wiki page with status=discardable - Tag:odbl=clean - so I think we can just change this tag status to "deprecated" and remove the special status for this one tag? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Tag_descriptions_with_status_%22discardable%22 Re: when to mark a tag as deprecated: Ideally there should be a proposal approved which clearly states that a certain tag will be deprecated and another tag approved, but there appear to be a number of tags that are marked as "deprecated" due to some discussion but not a full vote. In other cases it appears that deprecation was intended (eg amenity=embassy), but the tag is still commonly used and supported since the proposal was just approved. Perhaps there should be a wiki page created that described the process for deprecating a tag and when to change the status? Joseph On 7/28/19, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 27. Jul 2019, at 16:19, Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Please take a minute to review the new page >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Approval_status > > Allow me one remark for deprecated and obsolete. Currently it reads: > “ > deprecated: deprecated tags that will not be used anymore” > > this could be less absolute and maybe include reference to the process, > something like “tags which are discouraged by an approved proposal” > > Those tags that are discouraged because of a more established tagging > alternative but not through voting would be “obsolete”, right? On the other > hand for obsolete tags there is the requirement of “unapproved”, which > probably leads to all obsolete approved tags going to deprecated status. > Then to cover the formerly approved tags which haven’t been voted on their > deprecation (other than by their “feet”), but are now considered deprecated, > we should not require a vote on deprecation. > > “deprecated tags whose usage is commonly or by voting discouraged” > or > “deprecated tags whose usage is discouraged because of the tag usage history > or as the result of voting“ > or even shorter, given that there are more verbose explanations below: > “deprecated tags whose usage is discouraged” > > > > Cheers Martin > > > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
