Stop rendering amenity=swimming_pool?

[matthijsmelissen]

The tag leisure=swimming_pool is about 11 times as popular as amenity=swimming_pool. In addition, a proposal to discourage amenity=swimming_pool has been accepted with an overwhelming majority. The tag amenity=swimming_pool is now marked as discouraged on the wiki.

iD (correctly) proposes the tag leisure=swimming_pool when searching for 'Swimming pool'. However, iD still displays a swimming pool icon for objects with the tag amenity=swimming_pool.

What do you think is best? Keep rendering the icon for discouraged tag because it is still in common use, or drop the icon in the hope that this will speed up the unification of the tags?

[matthijsmelissen]

Some additional information: iD is the only of the big projects that does anything with amenity=swimming_pool. The tag is not rendered by openstreetmap-carto or OsmAnd, nor treated special in any way by JOSM.

[bhousel]

What do you think is best? Keep rendering the icon for discouraged tag because it is still in common use, or drop the icon in the hope that this will speed up the unification of the tags?

We keep presets for deprecated tags that are in common use, but we mark them as unsearchable so users can not pick them.

current stats on taginfo:

count	tag
521 789	leisure=swimming_pool
45 746	amenity=swimming_pool

Tags do not magically change when editors prefer new tags over old ones. If people want the tag to be changed, somebody needs to do the work of changing it. Discussion on the tagging mailing list, and editing the osm wiki are not going to change the tags.

[matthijsmelissen]

Thanks for explaining the rationale!