Changing RFC time for proposals including deprecation

[Minh_Nguyen (Minh Nguyễn)]

@lonvia

Here is the problem: we’ve had this double tagging of rivers with waterway=river/stream + waterway=riverbank. Often both were tagged with a name. This needs some deduplication for geocoding purposes. Nominatim did this by simply ignoring waterway=riverbank. After all, the river line is the more interesting result and ignoring a tag is easy enough. Then @ZeLonewolf came along and changed the tagging from a simple waterway=riverbank to natural=water+water=river. What was previously a primary feature now became an attribute to another tag. The way the tag processing works in Nominatim there is no way to filter by such an attribute, so deduplication of rivers has been broken since this particular mass edit because fixing it requires a change in the design of the software.

I stand corrected on this point, and am glad that we agree that deprecation is not normally as simple as it seems on the surface.