Hi, >> sergio sevillano wrote: >>> the key:barrier has been approved and thus the highway=gate now belongs >>> to barrier >>> *barrier=gate * >>> >>> shall we run a script to do this? >> >> No, because this would break existing rendering. First make sure the new >> tag is supported by the majority of renderers - otherwise it will look >> to people as if the gates had been removed because they're suddenly not >> on the map any more. > > And remember that "renderers" aren't just the main ones that show map > tiles, there's lots of other ones for mobile devices including e.g. > mkgmap, which may or may not need to be modified. Also any editor > presets (all the editors, not just JOSM), and of course the multitude > of routing programs.
When waiting till the majority of the software (using osm data) changed to the new tags, will there ever be a chance to run a convert script? Not just for the barrier tag, for any tag. IMOH there will never be a chance. There are still about 280 class=highway in germany.. (says the tagwatch.dstoecker.eu). > Who dislikes the concept of "deprecating" tags almost as much as > people automatically changing thousands of tags two days after a > self-selected cabal think that the voting system is the be all and end > all... Whats about a clean-up-day? At a given day, every year/quarter/month, all "deprecating" tags will be converted. With a list about which tags this will would be for the next clean-up-day. So there is a chance for doing this by hand in your region. Regards, raphael _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
