Tomas, Respectfully, I ask you to cease the pattern of name-calling, personal attacks, and insulting language used in this forum, and on project bug trackers[1][2].
Let's please assume good faith and be respectful while we discuss differences of opinion with an open mind - we are all here for the same reason - working together to create the best possible map for the world. [1] https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/17874 [2] https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/6589 On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 10:39 AM Tomas Straupis <[email protected]> wrote: > 2020-12-13, sk, 16:13 Brian M. Sperlongano rašė: > > 2019 was a turning point, and over the last two years, landuse=reservoir > has > > been on a steady decline, while water=reservoir continued its rapid > growth. > > New/duplicate schema with water=reservoir only launched because iD > coders decided to skip standard IT processes of product development > (or were not familiar with the basics of IT) and simply went for what > they personally liked, not what was better, and introduced > water=reservoir as the only way to tag, all this at the time when > water=reservoir usage was close to zero! > > And the only reason for change of stat starting 2019 is because > coders of iD decided to lie to the users that landuse=reservoir is > deprecated which it never was and started replacing landuse=reservoir > under their highly controversial disguise of "upgrade tags". > > So the change of statistics is not the preference of mappers but > preference of some nerds. > > > Is it time to more directly recommend that mappers favor natural=water + > water=reservoir > > *instead of* rather than *in addition to* landuse=reservoir? > > I would propose to deprecate water=reservoir and even more - add > guards so that such pointless/nerdy duplicate standards would not be > introduced in the future. > > Note that one of the main nerdy points of this schema was to have a > possibility to write sql easier (somebody has problems with "and/or") > and this would also require riverbanks to fall into this new water > schema. And riverbank clearly does not fall into that even with iD > lying about it too. Therefore the only point has failed and this > stupidity is spreading havoc in tagging of such prominent water > features for more than 10 years now. > > P.S. There is quite an easy solution to have a separate iD instance > for beginners with correct tagging presets loaded. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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