> I am also thinking about renaming the page altogether. There is simply > no room for the word "deprecated" here. I'm just unsure about the new > name. "Old features"? "Older features"?
I dosn't like the world "deprecated" too. But I guess there should be a mechanism, to show the users which tags are replaced by newer ones. >> and no new data has been added with that tag for >> a good while (a year maybe) it is probably safe to convert existing >> occurances to the new scheme and stop supporting the old one, IMHO. > > It is probably never "safe" but at some time one has to move on, we > cannot support old stuff forever. There ist no authority in OSM that has the power to define when "some time" has come to drop support older stuff forever.. I know a company, they have an authority with the power to change everything they would like. But in their newest "Features List" (they call it ISO/EDC 26300), there are features deprecated since tens of years.. Regards, Raphael _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk