Proposed features/Key:school=entrance

Deprecate school=entrance
Proposal status:	Approved (active)
Proposed by:	Pietervdvn
Tagging:	school=entrance
Applies to:	node,way
Definition:	The location where people (mostly students) can enter a school
Statistics:
Rendered as:	N/A
Drafted on:	2022-06-10
RFC start:	2022-06-10
Vote start:	2022-06-29
Vote end:	2022-07-13

This feature has been labeled as deprecated. The recommended replacement is: entrance=yes, entrance=main or some other applicable value.
The reason is documented in Deprecated features. You are still free to continue to use or interpret this tag as you see fit since OpenStreetMap does not have “banned features”.
Under no circumstances should you (semi-)automatically change “deprecated” tags to something else in the database on a large scale without conforming to the automated edits code of conduct. Any such change will be reverted.

Proposal

This proposal aims to deprecate the school=entrance

Tagging and history

school=entrance has historically been used to tag where people (probably students) can enter their school.

This tagging around 1800 objects - a number that has been stable since 2014.

Rationale

This feature should be officially marked as deprecated as:

• Entrances are tagged with entrance=*, which is widely understood and supported. This can replace all current values, especially for nodes
• There is no support in any editor to add those
• There is no support in any data user
• Usage is very small (1800 objects) compared to entrance=* which has 3.000.000 objects
• The wiki page on school=* already stated in 2018 that entrance=* is a better alternative
• This tags uses the key school=*, which can be used for a decent tagging scheme, e.g. for subject or school level. (This is for a future proposal)

Examples

This node is an example of how the old tagging was converted into the new tagging.

Rendering

Not applicable

Features/Pages affected

entrance=* already received a possible-synonym-box school=* already noted the deprecation

External discussions

Also see the discussion on the tagging mailing list ]

Comments

Please comment on the discussion page.

I find it problematic that deprecation notice and the description mentions entrance=students, which apparently is neither documented nor used anywhere ... so the recommendation seems misguided to me. --Push-f (talk) 21:34, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Oh, indeed. I quickly removed this mention; this is more of an access restriction. Should have been spotted in the RFC phase, but it slipped through Pietervdvn (talk) 22:04, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Voting

Voting closed

Voting on this proposal has been closed.

It was approved with 26 votes for, 3 votes against and 0 abstentions.

This was a vote on _deprecating_ school=entrance

• I approve this proposal. Let's not use school=entrance anymore —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pietervdvn (talk • contribs)

• I approve this proposal. Now with the mention of entrance=students removed, I approve this proposal. --Push-f (talk) 21:45, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

• I approve this proposal. No reason to have this, it's just more work for people who actually use OSM data. --Skquinn (talk) 21:38, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

• I approve this proposal. --Rskedgell (talk) 22:25, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --Riiga (talk) 05:03, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

• I approve this proposal. --Thibaultmol (talk) 05:42, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --Tordanik 07:04, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --Peter Elderson (talk) 07:43, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --JeroenHoek (talk) 08:18, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --Zorglubu (talk) 10:24, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --Famlam (talk) 11:26, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. though I am not sure whether vote is adding anything --Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 11:29, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --Protoxenus (talk) 11:46, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --Cg909 (talk) 01:55, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
• I oppose this proposal. procedural reasons, the tag is not in use and the voting is obviously only taking place because the proposer needs to prove something --SimonPoole (talk) 11:27, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --AntMadeira (talk) 12:28, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --LeTopographeFou (talk) 19:33, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --Thetornado76 (talk) 18:05, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. No need when better alternatives exist. --Minecraftchest1 (talk) 03:10, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --Timmy_Tesseract (talk) 11:39, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --快乐的老鼠宝宝 (talk) 17:28, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --Gendy54 (talk) 20:02, 10 July 2022 (UTC) cleaning that feels good
• I approve this proposal. --Wmorland (talk) 21:53, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
• I oppose this proposal. This proposal needs more research from author. This tag is often used for school gates. Even the linked example was not changed to entrance=*. The proposal should therefore give a hint to barrier=gate. The box only mentions entrance=yes and entrance=main. I suggest better description there. I am afraid of editing this by myself because there are already much votes. --Agent redd (talk) 08:10, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --Fnuttens (talk) 10:57, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
• I oppose this proposal. Using this rational then we must change all other "feature", with an entrance, to "feature=entrance"? I.e. building=entrance. Makes no sence al all! --Reino Baptista (talk) 15:01, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --501ghost (talk) 02:46, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --Luisluigi639 (talk) 04:25, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --DnaX (talk) 08:22, 13 July 2022 (UTC)