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Recently I wrote about building a nature preserve garden in Ballston Spa, NY. The project occupies a space of approximately a half an acre in Saratoga County, and it's difficult to capture the beauty and all the different perspectives of such a space. So. Here are a handful of photographs that were not included the first go round.
The native Dogwood tree will become more beautiful and more spectacular every year that passes.
One of three meadow style wildflower garden beds is going to be stunning. All the plant choices used for this project were NY or US native plants, which makes a garden low maintenance by default. No fertilization or pesticides will ever be needed.
Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium), one of only a handful of locally native plants that are succulents, is the centerpiece of this meadow wildflower garden bed.
Poison Parsnip dogged my every step all throughout this project. One day I thought for sure a Parsnip rash would break out on my face, thankfully it did not happen. Poison Parsnip does offer habitat value, giving pollen and nectar to pollinators and thus creating more stock bird food.
Burdock is another wild "weed" plant naturally existing in abundance throughout the ecosystem. This makes me smile through and through, because Burdock has tremendous healing properties for human beings. Just ask my friend John Otrembiak.
Out of modest beginnings the prairie gardens will be a bold force to be reckoned with in no time.
If the birds leave any raspberries on the native flowering raspberry bushes, the homeowners can have an enjoyable early morning stroll complete with berries for their cereal or smoothies.
And, as always, or whenever possible, it feels great to provide Monarch butterfly habitat through use of Asclepias incarnata or A. tuberosa, the garden variety Milkweeds that Monarchs need to complete their life cycle. Building this lovely nature preserve garden in Ballston Spa, NY- designed by Jessecology- we were able to include 13 individual Pink Milkweed (A. incarnata) plants. Welcome, Monarchs!


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HÀ NỘI — The 2017 Vietbuild international exhibition will open in Hà Nội on Wednesday with the participation of 300 domestic and foreign businesses.
New products and services in the fields of construction, building materials, real estate and interior and exterior decoration will be on display at some 1,000 pavilions from 12 countries and territories, such as South Korea, Japan, the US and Thailand.
Việt Nam Real Estate Association chairman Nguyễn Trần Nam said the exhibition has become a venue for construction businesses to promote trade and co-operation.
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Sen. Jeff Bingaman asked Veterans Affairs Secretary James Nicholson for a thorough inquiry into his agency's investigation of whether a VA nurse's letter criticizing the Bush administration amounted to "sedition."
The agency's human resources office ultimately cleared her of any wrongdoing, but Bingaman, D-N.M., said yesterday he was concerned that the VA investigated Laura Berg of Albuquerque in the first place.
Merely opposing government policies and expressing a desire to change course "does not provide reason to believe that a person is involved in illegal subversive activity," he said.
Such investigations raise "a very real possibility of chilling legitimate political speech," Bingaman said.
"In a democracy, expressing disagreement with the government's actions does not amount to sedition or insurrection," he wrote. "It is, and must remain, protected speech. Although it may be permissible to implement restrictions regarding a government employee's political activities during work hours or on government premises, such employees do not surrender their right to freedom of speech when they enlist in government service."
Bingaman said he wanted the matter investigated so VA officials would have guidance about handling similar situations in the future.
Berg, a clinical nurse specialist, wrote a letter in September to a weekly Albuquerque newspaper criticizing how the administration handled Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War. She urged people to "act forcefully" to remove an administration she said played games of "vicious deceit."
She signed the letter as a private citizen, and the VA had no reason to suspect she used government resources to write it, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, which last week asked the government to apologize to Berg for seizing her computer and investigating her.
VA human resources chief Mel Hooker had said in a Nov. 9 letter that his agency was obligated to investigate "any act which potentially represents sedition," the ACLU said.


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Gum arabic, the resin of certain acacia trees, has been an important product of east Africa and the Sahel for millennia. In addition to being traded as far away as India, it is eaten by local animals and has also been a key tree-crop that has been relied upon by indigenous folk and, in past eras, travelers during periods of drought. It is a key export commodity of The Sudan, and thus was a central focus of the project work in which I was involved in western Sudan, as discussed here and here .
In this and several other blogs that are being finished, I want to focus on three 19th century explorers who discuss this important gum – Baker; Burton; Speke. The first, by Baker, will be found below:
"A large quantity of gum arabic is collected throughout this country, which sells in Cassala at 20 piastres (4s. 2d.) the cantar of 100 lbs. There are three varieties, produced from various mimosas [Acacia]; the finest quality is gathered in the province of Kordofan, but I subsequently met with large quantities of this species in the Base country… The exports of the Soudan are limited to gum arabic, ivory, hides, senna, and bees'-wax; the latter is the produce of Abyssinia.
"These articles are generally collected by travelling native traders, who sell to the larger merchants resident in Cassala and Khartoum, the two principal towns of the Soudan…
"One of the mimosas yields an excellent fibre for rope-making, in which my people are busily engaged; the bark is as tough as leather, and forms an admirable material for the manufacture of sacks. This business is carried to a considerable extent by the Arabs, as there is a large demand for sacks of sufficient size to contain two hundred and fifty or three hundred pounds of gum arabic (half a camel load). Thus one sack slung upon each side can be packed easily to the animal.
"One of the mimosas (Acacia Arabica) produces a fruit in appearance resembling a tamarind: this is a powerful astringent and a valuable medicine in cases of fever and diarrhea; it is generally used by the Arabs for preparing hides; when dry and broken it is rich in a hard gum, which appears to be almost pure tannin.
"The wild animals have now deserted this immediate neighborhood; the only creatures that are to be seen in numbers are the apes and monkeys: these throng the sides of the river, eating the tamarinds from the few large trees, and collecting gum from the mimosas. These hungry animals gather the tamarinds before they ripen, and I fear they will not leave a handful for us; nothing is more agreeable in this hot climate than the acidity of tamarind water. I remarked a few days ago, when walking along the dry sandy bed of the Till about five miles from the river, that the monkeys had been digging wells in the sand for water.
"Upon one occasion a woman brought me a child of about fifteen months old, with a broken thigh; she had fallen asleep upon her camel, and had allowed the child to fall from her arms. I set the thigh, and secured it with gum bandages, as the mimosas afforded the requisite material. About twenty yards of old linen in bandages three inches broad, soaked in thick gum-water, will form the best of splints when it becomes dry and hard, which in that climate it will do in about an hour.
"We had several times disturbed antelopes during the early portion of the march, and we had just ascended from the rugged slopes of the valley, when we observed a troop of about a hundred baboons, who were gathering gum arabic from the mimosas; upon seeing us, they immediately waddled off. I set Jali's broken thigh, and employed myself in making splints; …I carefully secured to the long splint with three rows of bandages, the first plain, and the last two layers were soaked in thick gum-water. When these became dry and hard, they formed a case like an armour of paste-board: previous to bandaging the limb in splints, I had bathed it for some hours with cold applications. The immediate neighbourhood was a perfect exhibition of gum-arabic-bearing mimosas. At this season the gum was in perfection, and the finest quality was now before us in beautiful amber-coloured masses upon the stems and branches, varying from the size of a nutmeg to that of an orange.
"So great was the quantity, and so excellent were the specimens, that, leaving our horses tied to trees, both the Arabs and myself gathered a large collection. This gum, although as hard as ice on the exterior, was limpid in the centre, resembling melted amber, and as clear as though refined by some artificial process. The trees were perfectly denuded of leaves from the extreme drought, and the beautiful balls of frosted yellow gum recalled the idea of the precious jewels upon the trees in the garden of the wonderful lamp of the "Arabian nights.
"This gum was exceedingly sweet and pleasant to the taste; but, although of the most valuable quality, there was no hand to gather it in this forsaken, although beautiful country; it either dissolved during the rainy season, or was consumed by the baboons and antelopes. The aggageers [elephant hunters] took off from their saddles the skins of tanned antelope leather that formed the only covering to the wooden seats, and with these they made bundles of gum. When we remounted, every man was well laden…
… "In spite of its unhealthiness and low situation, on a level with the river at the junction of the Blue and White Niles, it [Khartoum] is the general emporium for the trade of the Soudan, from which the productions of the country are transported to Lower [southern] Egypt, i.e. ivory, hides, senna, gum arabic, and bees'-wax. During my experience of Khartoum it was the hotbed of the slave-trade. It will be remarked that the exports from the Soudan are all natural productions. There is nothing to exhibit the industry or capacity of the natives; the ivory is the produce of violence and robbery; the hides are the simple sun-dried skins of oxen; the senna grows wild upon the desert; the gum arabic exudes spontaneously from the bushes of the jungle; and the bees'-wax is the produce of the only industrious creatures in that detestable country.
Source – Samuel W. Baker, The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia and the sword hunters of the Hamran Arabs, 1866.


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TUNIS – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will provide technical support to the Government of the Tunisian Republic in building its capacity in managing and implementing the national school feeding programme.
WPF and the Government of the Tunisian Republic represented by the Ministry of Education signed on Friday a Memorandum of Understanding marking the beginning of this partnership after an initial request from the government. The Director of Primary Education of the Ministry of Education of Tunisia Mr. Kamel Hajjam represented the Tunisian government, WFP was represented by its Deputy Regional Director Carlo Scaramella (represented by Carlo Scaramella, WFP Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and Northern Africa.
"It is important to stress that providing sufficient nutrition to all schoolchildren in Tunisia is not a luxury. Rather it is a necessity towards nurturing a healthy new generation of citizens who will be at the heart of building the country's future," Scaramella said.
Tunisia's school meals will be implemented in all public primary schools across the country. It will provide improved access to education for children from the poorest households and ensures the reduction of dropout rates. WFP will work with the government on strengthening the national school feeding programme and will help monitor the implementation of the project, taking into account national priorities for health and child nutrition.
School meals act as safety nets for poor households, helping families to educate their children and ensure food security in times of crisis. WFP will share its knowledge and expertise in school feeding through the WFP Centre of Excellence Against Hunger in Brazil and will also share best practices from countries in the Middle East and North Africa where it has been successfully implementing school feeding programmes.
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The Real Housewives has (so far) taken a different direction this season. There are fewer long extended fights between the women. This season there seems to be conflicts then a quick resolution within a couple of episodes. No more three four episodes of fights and endless arguments. This trend began on RHNY last season and continues in Atlanta. Thanks Bravo.
"Kenya's Absentee Mommy"
We begin with Kenya and Cynthia at the site of Kenya home which is under construction. They discuss Kenya's family reunion and the drama surrounding her birth mom. Its difficult not to feel for Kenya who just wants answers from the mother who didn't want her. She tells Cynthia after the reunion she has and had become closer with her dad.
While she has closure with her mom. She needs closure with her Aunt Lori. Lori, who flew to Detroit didn't attend the reunion. Lori said her sister called and was upset by Kenya's impromptu visit and feels Kenya should have called first. Kenya is hurt that her Aunt took her mothers side. A mother we learn, who would not acknowledge Kenya's presence at events where they were both present.
Lori feels, while she loves Kenya ,her mom had every right to give Kenya away. Kenya responds, telling her aunt that she has no issue with being given away. she takes issue with the way her mother has treated her since she has come back into her life. Kenya tells her aunt that she is tired of being ignored. Kenya then tells her that after being at the house and that final confrontation "a dark cloud had been lifted off of her and she felt lighter."Its odd, Lori a mother of a daughter would not attempt to facilitate some type of meeting between the two.
She's till Monster Joyce!
My favorite part of last nights episode is when Kandi and Todd went to Monster's house to see of they can get the sisters Bertha, Nora and Monster Joyce to help with a restaurant they are proposing. The family is in full attendance. Now I'm not sure if Monster Joyce had some liquor in her sweet tea, because she was super sweet. (Perhaps she read the blogs-as she was right behind Kenya as the least like person on the show) She grabs Kandi with a squishy rocking hug with a very loud "I love you"! (someone taste test her tea!)
But the killer was Todd( the man she wanted to wipe off the face of the planet or Georgia ) she grabbed Todd with even more enthusiasm "I LOVE YOU" "HOW YOU DOIN !" Todd's expression was one of shock!
Todd lays on the Butter, who's the best cook? Bertha tosses her hand up "I am!" He tells the ladies he is thinking of opening up a restaurant called the "Old Ladies Gang" . Bertha (who never fails to give us one ) say's "Oh hell no!" Not the reaction he was hoping for. The rest of the gang was silent, including his loving mother in law Monster Joyce. He applied more butter, crickets.
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Ms Parks Goes to Washington
Phaedra goes Washington to participate in the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March. She takes her well behaved 5 year old Aiden. She invites Kim ,Porsha and Sheree. Kim brings her two boys and Sheree brings her 6.6 foot son. Phaedra has an organization called Save Our Son 's and she meets with various politicians. In a very touching moment she meets a group of women called Mothers for Justice United, who shared their stories of their sons being killed and the effect on their lives.
Kim travels alone with her two sons a twenty month year old and a poor behaving 8 year who vocally found everything boring. She later says she didn't doesn't want him to be exposed to concepts that he can't fully comprehend yet. Phaedra says she doesn't have "the luxury of sugarcoating reality" with her sons. Kim didn't participate in the luncheon because of a squirmy 20 month old (understandable) and leaves before the march because she had obligations back in Atlanta . (Why did you come again?)
"The Return of Nene"
The big build up with the self proclaimed Queen went no where. The Leaks and the Thomas are together again. Cynthia and Nene, Nene and Cynthia was awkward. The two have been communicating but Nene still has Cynthia blocked on social media. While they seemed to be happy seeing each other, Cynthia 2.0 is a different woman. She tells the queen, that Kenya is her girl. Nene doesn't like being #2 or Kenya. So we will watch what happens next.
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This past weekend was the wedding of one of my best friends. She and her new husband have been together for eight years, having met while we were all in college together. I thank Jeff for teaching me to love CSI while he dominated our house's television on weekends, for bringing me into their reality TV weekly celebrations while they lived in Queens years later, and his impromptu dermatological consults. Jeff and Anita have been a couple almost as long as we've been friends, and I am so happy to have been a part of their long awaited celebration.
This was my first time in the wedding party since I charmed churchgoers as my cousin's flower girl in 1992.
Over the past two years, I've been excited to take on the role of bridesmaid and support the bride-to-be in any way I could. From stuffing wedding invitations to delivering cocktails at the reception, my focus was on the couple. Except, of course, when my attention was diverted by food.
Up until the big day, I had friends and family as my "food police," helping me stick to my healthy goals. I wanted to keep my energy up, avoid getting sick, and make sure I looked great on a day when there would be thousands of pictures taken of guests from every angle. Especially these past few weeks, I've been careful about what I put into my body. Wedding weekend was no exception.
Birch Hill caterer provided food for both the rehearsal dinner and the reception, and they put out a beautiful spread with several vegetarian options available. (Unlike one wedding I went to last year, but on that occasion a waitress brought over my own special plate of chilled avocado soup, a brie and pear tart, and some delectable cucumber thing. You go, Four Seasons!)
I always find the cocktail hour with small plates selection to be even better than the sit-down entrees. Maybe it's just me (or the fact that I'm so hungry during the first hour) but this is the time I like to dig in. Taking a look at the buffet table, there were a lot of choices this weekend. Following my general plan of attack for special occasions, I decided to make a healthy and a not-so-healthy plate. A small mound of guacamole with piles of raw peppers, summer squash and cucumbers to dip (and two tortilla chips that I passed off to Mike), a bit of fruit salsa, and a bunch of pineapple was my starting plate. I ended up going back for more peppers, cucumbers, grapes, and pineapple. I usually don't post pictures when they're not of a quality anywhere near the realm of "good," but I have a point I'd like to make, so please forgive these quickly snapped shots.
The healthful plate was full of vitamins, water, fiber, tasty flavors with sweetness and crunch. And do you notice anything about the color?
Moving on, it's not the most photogenic, but the spinach artichoke dip was fabulous. Some crackers, artichoke hearts, and mozzarella cheese rounded out the dish of indulgence.
The point I'd like to make is something I call the Beige Rule. Notice how much more beige this picture is? If you ever have a meal that's all beige, chances are it's not good for you. Starchy, sugary, fried, cheesey… breads, pastas, pastries all fit the beige food bill. While Cheetos and their shocking orange hue are clearly an exception to the beige rule, and many other color-enhanced food-products, many of nature's best foods come in beautiful colors that showcase their vitamins and minerals right on the surface. There are healthy exceptions to the Beige Rule as well, such as brown rice and oatmeal. While healthy, these are both very calorie dense and should still be eaten mindfully. Of course we need to have a little bit of beige every now and again, but if you're trying to go for healthy, beige is not your best bet. By limiting the beige to one small plate, I could continue on my quest for a healthier lifestyle. I may have sent someone back for just a smidge more… but I offset it with a third plate of fresh fruits and veg.
For the rehearsal dinner, the main course was also buffet style. I opted for a small portion of rice, a small pile of pasta primavera with parmesan, and huge honking load of broccoli. This image looks like it's zoomed in, but the plate was truly much larger than the appetizer plates. The broccoli spears were bigger than my fist! How's that for some color? A little marinara sauce on the side.
With such a tasty preview, I looked forward to the food on the big night. Sadly, I don't have any food pictures from the wedding night aside from one, because I was busy
dancing, jumping into pictures, and running to refill my wine glass doing bridesmaidly duties.
Terrible picture. But at least you can see there was quite a bit of color in my eggplant parmesan and grilled vegetables on the side. I wasn't a fan of the potatoes and was already pretty stuffed from the earlier cocktail hour and beautiful salad course, so I ended up eating all my veggies and about half of the eggplant. That's ok. It was definitely fried and had lots of breading, so as tasty as it was, it was also a bit indulgent.
But on a special occasion, that's what it's about. Celebrating love, life and food. Cheers! To a lifetime of happiness for the beautiful couple!


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The two elder wizards talked late into the night, but thankfully sleep overtook me not long after the meal. I slept luxuriously that night.
Mhorik and I set out early the next morning, and truth be told, I was glad to be away from that place. We waved to the last few villagers who had guided us as they walked back. They were barely out of sight when I turned to Mhorik.
"What did she mean when she said you were a 'generous master'?"
Mhorik continued walking, different emotions playing across his face. He gave a small sigh and answered, "Some wizards aren't kind to their apprentices. Some believe that hardship makes an apprentice more focused."
He saw the scowl on my face and chuckled to himself. We walked on in silence as I thought about this. I never really thought about other wizards much, let alone apprentices. A thousand questions flooded my mind: Why was Mhorik generous to me? Was it because I was a girl? Was it because he thought I'd become too powerful? Or not powerful enough?
We journeyed on for a few more days while I was lost in thought. Mhorik seemed to understand I needed distance, and there was no idle chatter. I started going through everything in my head and questioning it. Was Mhorik a good teacher? Did he push me too hard? Not hard enough? Was he a capable wizard? Despite being male? Because he was male and had to work harder? More and more questions came to me with each passing day, but no answers.
I was broken out of my thoughts suddenly when we were walking along a hunting path one afternoon. Mhorik suddenly pushed me into the underbrush with him. "Shh!" he hissed into my ear.
I shifted around and looked just above the foliage to see a small band of Kobolds marching along the path ahead. They were armed with large clubs and crude spears; a marauding party looking for targets.
"Fight?" I breathed the question to Mhorik as I ducked my head down.
He sucked a bit of air between his teeth, poked his head up quickly, and then back down. "Yes," he said decisively, his knuckles white from gripping his staff.
My mind raced as I considered the magic I should wield. I felt Mhorik wrap some magic around us. "Protection," he whispered.
I took a steadying breath, then pulled aside my sleeve and looked at my rune scars. Fire, ground, wind…. Wind! I did a simple counting spell to count the number of short spears in the group. Five came to my mind and I nodded to myself. "I summon wind," I whispered. "Then fire."
Mhorik looked at me, thought a moment, then smiled. He nodded approval.
We sat for a while longer as Mhorik stole glances at the approaching group. "Fifteen," he whispered into my ear. "Ready?"
I swallowed hard and held my breath. He tapped me on the shoulder, once, twice, three times….
On the third tap, we sprung out of hiding and into the open. The wind spell on my lips as we stood, causing the air between us and the group to churn. One Kobold shouted in alarm, and a few hurled their spears at us, easily knocked aside by the wind.
I concentrated on my next spell, tracing the rune on my arm. I didn't really need the rune to summon the fire, but I did need it for control. I planted gouts of fire all around the enemies, discouraging their advance without trying to kill them all. One of the Kobolds went into a frenzy and charged anyway, consumed by flame before he even took five steps beyond.
A few more spears hurtled toward us. My wind spell was weakening, but still potent enough to knock the short spears aside. I concentrated more fire around the group, trying to force them away from us. I inhaled deeply, concentrating hard but feeling the strain of the magic. A quick look at the field let me know that Mhorik had not cast any magic at the group. What was wrong?
As if on cue, Mhorik uttered a final word of power. It shook the air around us as a bolt of lightning struck the ground near the Kobolds. The explosive force drew in the fire and then expelled it in a wicked blaze of destruction. Bodies hit the ground, and the others went running off the path, into the tall grass and away from us.
I sat down hard, letting my concentration drop. A few flames still burned, sustained by the bodies instead of my own will. The smell was terrible, but I was too tired to care. I pulled out a bit of water and drank deeply. Mhorik reached down and I handed the skin to him.
Then I laughed. Had Mhorik been a good teacher to me? The fact I was still alive to ponder the question after that answered it quite decisively for me.


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Next to the couple about 15 feet away were three girls in their early twenties. The one in the middle could not stop staring and the affectionate EMT and his equally affectionate girlfriend. I couldn't quite tell from her face whether she was revolted, turned on, or simply intrigued by this display. So I stared at her.
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The EMT the leaned over to his girlfriend. Having her back to me, she turned her head over her shoulder to look in my direction. When she realized whom her boyfriend was talking about she made a big smile towards me and the EMT leaned over and gave me a huge thank you smile. I laughed out loud and then buried my head in my book wondering how six people had such a full and awkward conversation without actually saying a word.
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Talk:Deprecated features
- 1 boundary=national_park and aerialway=drag_lift
- 2 URL vs. Website
- 3 sorting unclear
- 4 OpenStreetMap does not have "deprecated features"
- 5 Highway=ford
- 6 add Tag:amenity=public_building to the List?
- 7 Proposal for changing "deprecated" to "banned" in the preamble
- 8 I suggest we deprecate the following
boundary=national_park and aerialway=drag_lift
what is wrong with boundary=national_park and aerialway=drag_lift? Walley 17:01, 30 August 2007 (BST)
- There is nothing wrong with boundary=national_park. It is currently in use more than 750 times in Europe alone according to tagwatch. Since there is also no alternative nor a reason given for its depreciation I'll remove it from this page. --Cartinus 21:56, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
According to Proposed_features/Power_Lines#Votes_4 power=line isn't deprecated. 21:12, 12 October 2007 (BST)SaschaR
Does anyone have or remember a reason why the tag lit=* has been added to this list in July 2007? It's still in the list of Map features and I couldn't find any reasons for deprecation, not from this Wiki nor the mailing list archives. In few days I will remove it from this list unless given some reason why it should be here. Alv 18:19, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
User:Hawke today updated description of why the abutters are deprecated. Page Key:abutters is not marked as deprecated, abutters are still on the Map_Features page. I tend to follow the current tagging "best practice" - but this is very confusing to me --Dido 20:39, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
- [diff from march 19, 2008] also edited by Hawke, changes deprecation of abutters=mixed to more general abutters=*
- I do not recall whether it was my intention to change that. It looks like that change was mostly intended to change to using the Tag template, and that change may have been accidental. I know there has been discussion in the past of problems with abutters. But if someone wants to modify it back to abutters=mixed that's fine by me. --Hawke 22:03, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
URL vs. Website
Looking for consensus to add url=* to the list of deprecated features, per content at Key:url. --Ceyockey 03:40, 8 July 2011 (BST)
- I'm ok with this Ogmios 10:50, 15 July 2011 (BST)
- Sounds good, may be a good idea to migrate the part about specific alternatives over to the website page (obviously omitting the part about the website tag). --Lyciathelycanroc (talk) 12:14, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
sorting unclear
Should this table be sorted via date or Old Key/Value? :-) --Zuse 19:28, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
OpenStreetMap does not have "deprecated features"
Errr.. Stupid question: Why does this page state that "OpenStreetMap does not have 'deprecated features'" and then go on to list them? Isn't there a better way of explaining this at the top? -- Harry Wood 11:17, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- That's quite an old question, but the issue remains. Isn't the real problem here, not that the text is unclear, but that different people interpret "deprecated" in different ways. To most it means "discouraged because a better alternative has emerged" (which the opening paragraphs explain reasonably well). but to some it means "banned: this tag is a candidate to be removed through a mass edit" (which is what the opening statement tries to address). It is unlikely that anyone has the energy to reconcile these differences in general. So rather than trying to redefine "deprecated" what about creating two sub-pages here. One for the extreme case of any tags that are "banned and candidates for removal". The other aimed at contributors who want a quick run-down on "tags that have been superseded by better alternatives". My own view would be that initially the first sub-page should be empty, and any tags in the table that still exist in the database should be added to the second. Perhaps that would be more clear, and help build consensus around more rational classification in future. --Peter Reed 14:39, 29 August 2012 (BST)
Could we have an explanation of why this is shown as deprecated? See also ford=* and highway=ford --Peter Reed 13:14, 28 August 2012 (BST)
- One explanation is that highway=ford can only be used on nodes and not on ways whereas ford=yes can be applied to both. --Scai 07:26, 29 August 2012 (BST)
Scai - I understand that ford=yes has some advantages over highway=ford, particularly where a ford is large enough to be represented as a way. I think it is a good addition, and I have used it myself. What I don't get is why that means highway=ford should be deprecated. It is widely used, and convenient, and I don't see any problems in leaving it in place for small fords, which are represented by nodes. Deprecating has side effects, and unless there is a good reason I would prefer to see an approach that recommends ford=yes without deprecating highway=ford.
- We should probably add a better description of what it means for a tag to be 'deprecated'. As already pointed out by Harry Wood there is no real deprecation in OSM and additionally you are even encouraged to use any tags you like. So it is no real problem for old objects to be still tagged as highway=ford and any tool looking for fords has to look for both tags anyway. You could even use highway=ford for new objects. Nevertheless ford=yes has some advantages as you noticed and consequently it should be preferred over highway=ford when adding it to new objects. Also any tool offering you tag presets has to decide which of the two tags to prefer and because of the advantages they should prefer ford=yes but ideally also understand the other version and maybe even offer to convert the old one into the new one, like JOSMs validator currently does. Yet there is no real problem with the older tag as long as you aren't using it on ways. --Scai 12:41, 29 August 2012 (BST)
- It sounds as though we are in agreement, and have a common view of what "deprecated" means. I suspect Harry Wood has a similar view, and I know others do. Unfortunately, some do not share that view. They interpret "deprecated" as meaning "should be removed from the database". I can't see this being a huge issue with fords, but it is elsewhere, and might cause problems with fords that we can't foresee. So my suggestion is that highway=ford is removed from this page, and that (in the relevant pages) the ford=yes form is encouraged, and the highway=ford form is documented, but discouraged - with an explanation. In the spirit of Wiki editing, it's probably best to wait a while before changing anything - to see if there are other views. --Peter Reed 12:56, 29 August 2012 (BST)
- My opinion is, that one tag is enough for exactly the same thing! I would vote for a transformation form highway=ford to ford=yes in the whole database. And if it's done, then someone can write it here to deprecated features, so every interpreter can handle this "new" tag. --MasiMaster 19:38, 29 August 2012 (BST)
- What stops interpreters handling the new ford=yes tag now? Surely anything along the lines of "where ford=yes or highway=ford" would do it. Or am I missing something? --Peter Reed 20:21, 29 August 2012 (BST)
- Nothing! But it is easier for all, to use only one tag. How can the interpreters see, that there is a new tag? Is there any page like "New/changed tags"? Now we have 2 similar tags, what about 3, 5 or 10 similar tags? It needs too much resources to ask for many similar tags. And it provoke that interpreters miss one or more tags. That makes the data inconsistent. Furthermore, mappers can be inspired to use the "old" tag. Or let me ask, why is it better to use more than one tag? --MasiMaster 13:12, 30 August 2012 (BST)
- Maybe I should first restate that I am in favour of the ford=yes form, because it is simple, widely applicable and allows more information to be added alongside. I also think there are advantages in giving contributors one set of guidelines, because that makes life easy for them, and this should be it. I also see no problem with people changing individual fords from the old form to the new, in the spirit of OSM, as they see fit. What I am opposed to is a mass removal of the existing form. It has already been widely used and is already supported by renders. I fear that, however we interpret the "deprecated features" page, that is what will end up happening, because others see it as a useful database simplification. I have two issues with this. One is that mass edits very often have unexpected side-effects. Even when they are used properly, the mechanisms for discussing them are too fragmented and too transient to build a proper consensus. And the result is that contributors get upset, changes have to be reverted, and there is frustration and confusion all round. My second reason is that at last processes for introducing new tags are working well. This proposal, for example, is well thought through, adds value, seems well designed, and so on. Introducing it, documenting it properly, encouraging use by contributors and renders all add value and move things forward. I doubt if anyone has objected, or would object to it being added. But removing an existing tag often turns out to be destructive. If the pressure to remove old variants alongside introducing new ones was challenged more often I think it would help avoid conflict, and hence move consensus forward - to the benefit of everyone.
- On this issue of "how many" options, we are only talking about two forms here. Any more than that is hypothetical. But there are already numerous examples where data users have to cope with at least two variants. Is there an upper limit? I imagine there is, but it isn't "one". Of course "one" is always going to be easier than "more than one". But in most cases the practical difference is marginal (if they truly are equivalent). It has to be balanced against the other costs of cleaning the data. In my own experience of using OSM data, I can often find a large number of tagging variants for a particular type of feature if I do a through search. But the most popular form normally catches the majority of cases. Any variants after the second tend to pick up only a small number of cases, so it's unusual for me to process more than two or three variants. Missing data gives me more problems than obscure tags.
- And is there a "new / changed tags" page? Not that I am aware of, but I wish there was a page that covered "tag equivalences" - for the benefit of data users (more than for contributors). It could hold (for example) cases such as "highway=ford" is equivalent to "ford=yes". That would remove some of the pressure to change the underlying data (though it might - unfortunately - encourage people to try and "fix" it). It would though, help to collect cases that needed discussion into one place, and allow a wider, and less transient, discussion before they turn into disputes.
add Tag:amenity=public_building to the List?
--Reneman (talk) 14:35, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Proposal for changing "deprecated" to "banned" in the preamble
As said before in 2012 the first sentence of the main page is contrary to the title of the site.
It is ambiguous to list "deprecated features" while stating that there are no "deprecated features". I suggest to change the first sentence to: OpenStreetMap does not have "banned features", as anybody is allowed and encouraged to use any tag they think is useful.
--Rudolf (talk) 17:48, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
I suggest we deprecate the following
route=riding -> route=horse
Reason: no wiki-page, little use, duplicate of route=horse. See Tag:route=horse--PangoSE (talk) 11:35, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
type=region -> place=region
Reason: no wiki-page, little use, duplicate. See place=region--PangoSE (talk) 11:35, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
- Commonly used in Poland for physiographic region relations: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6533672
- You can't replace it with place= because relation needs 'type' key.{{Signature|rafmar|27 augusti 2018 kl. 12.38 |pangoSE}}
- Thank you for the reply. There seem to be no proposals regarding how to tag these psysiographic regions. Fennoscandia which includes Sweden is not found. Further these physiographic traits are never referred to or used in Sweden and the borders of e.g. Fennoscandia is not well defined anywhere. How are they used in Poland and polish culture? Are they clearly defined somewhere?
- In the relevant WP-page I read "Even in the 21st century, some confusion remains as to exactly what "physiography" is."--PangoSE (talk) 13:29, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
- You could use type=multipolygon, or are there special roles? —Dieterdreist (talk) 20:34, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
boundary=region -> boundary=administrative + boundary_type=region or place=region if not administrative
Reason: no wiki-page, little use, does not appear on Key:boundary or Relation:boundary.--PangoSE (talk) 11:35, 27 August 2018 (UTC)


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The exposure compensation dial. What's it for, exactly? And who on earth uses this completely useless knob that's taking up precious space on top of so many camera bodies?
These were my questions as I stared at the range of Fujis and Sonys in the camera store the other day. In the 15 years that I've been shooting on an SLR and a DSLR, I've never used it, and can't imagine a situation where I would ever need it.
I'm not a manual purist but I always like to know exactly what my camera is doing. I base my exposure decisions first on the camera's recommended exposure, and then on the histogram once I've fired off a test shot (this will probably change if and when I shift to mirrorless as the in-view histogram and accurate EVF will reduce the amount of chimping). Given that I spend a lot of time shooting upwards and incorporating a lot of sky, I often have to ignore my camera's suggested exposure and let more light into my lens, trying to achieve detail in the shadows while retaining a slither of information from the highlights so that I can squeeze a bit of detail into the sky when editing. This often means shooting one or two stops above what my camera says is correct and, despite this, still creating an image that is slightly underexposed (with a histogram in which the mountains are mostly on the left) that gives me more flexibility in postproduction.
For those of you unfamiliar with exposure compensation, here's a quick explanation. Cameras detect the amount of light of any scene and make a judgment on what will make the best exposure. In fully automatic mode, this is used to decide the shutter speed, aperture, and ISO, and even in manual mode, many cameras will give an indication of whether your settings will give an exposure that it regards as under, over, or perfectly exposed. However, despite the technological advances of the last couple of decades, cameras are still very easily confused by surprisingly simple things like snow, large amounts of sky, or darkness.
The exposure compensation dial gives you the opportunity to adjust the camera's assumptions of what is the right amount of light. For example, shooting a snowy scene can mean that there's a lot of light entering the lens, and the camera's recommended exposure can often try to make a more balanced image, letting in less light than we might want, and making snow appear dull and gray rather than bright and white.
My approach might be to shoot a test shot in auto (often "P" on a camera's mode dial), check the histogram, switch to manual mode, and make adjustments from there. Alternatively, with the exposure compensation function, you can stay in auto mode but can tell the camera to allow more light in, often by increments of one-third of a stop. On a Nikon or a Canon, this is adjusted by holding a button marked "+/-" and turning one of the dials. On a Fuji or a Sony, this can be achieved slightly more efficiently by using the huge dedicated dial found on top of the camera.
This dial is a complete waste of space. For anyone learning photography and trying to get their head around the exposure triangle, exposure compensation is an unnecessary distraction, complicating an already complex set of variables and their confusing number systems.
When I'm photographing, I always want to make sure that my camera isn't creating a setting that's going to disrupt my intentions for a shot. For example, for my action photography, I want to be sure that my camera isn't choosing a shutter speed that's too low, an aperture that's too wide, or, occasionally, an ISO that's too grainy.
Furthermore, I know that the camera's recommended exposure is just a vague clue as to what the histogram is going to tell me, and it's through the histogram that I'm going to make a judgment on the correct exposure.
Given how useless the exposure compensation function is, why do some manufacturers insist on having such a massive dial dedicated to it? Maybe I was missing some crucial trick that could improve my photography. Intrigued, I asked my Fstoppers colleagues if they ever used exposure compensation. The answers were quite surprising.
From my random, completely unscientific straw poll of 13 photographers, 6 said that they don't use it, with most of those never once using it during their time as photographers. "Exposure who?" asked Tihomir Lazarov, explaining that, other than exposing manually, he rarely uses any of the additional functionality of his camera beyond formatting a memory card. Nicole York agreed. The thought of a dedicated dial seemed as ludicrous to them as it was to me.
The remaining seven photographers had completely different thoughts. Wasim Ahmad, Alex Cooke, and Lee Morris use exposure compensation extensively. Ahmad finds that his camera's decision making often creates shots that are over-exposed, and Cooke likes to make sure that he's not blowing highlights when shooting baseball with his ISO set to auto. As Alex Armitage pointed out, it's always better to recover shadows in post-production than blow highlights when shooting, so in high contrast situations, he tweaks his exposure compensation to -1.
Suddenly this setting was beginning to make a little more sense, but a huge, dedicated dial still felt like overkill. And then this from Jason Vinson: "I use it so much I'd never consider a camera that didn't have a dedicated dial for it. If I'm not focusing, my thumb is on the dial." And as Morris observed, "With flash photography, it's the quickest way to dial an exposure without going full manual."
So here's my second straw poll: our readers. Do you use it? And if you use it, do you need a giant dial dedicated to it, or is that knob a stylized hangover that's wasting precious space on an already crowded camera body? Please vote and, as usual, let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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I guess it depends on what type of photography you are shooting. Most of what I do is either to fast paced to be adjusting (so I set the triangle to best suit most of the shots and then edit in post what is necessary), or super controlled environments where I can take the time to set everything fully manual. So, to me it is rather useless. I have never used it or felt at any moment that I should use it.
I can see where it would be useless if you shoot in the studio where you can set everything, but I'm always outside in changing light/conditions shooting fast as you say, and that's when/why I use it all the time. ESPECIALLY for mirrorless. If you were using a DSLR you have to chimp to see what exposure you are getting so you could make manual adjustments and EC would be less useful there, but I'm like 98 percent of the time in aperture priority on a mirrorless of one type or another, so I can have my thumb on the EC wheel and constantly adjust exposure with my eye to the eyepiece without needing to deal with 1-2 extra dials.
I, however, don't like the type they have pictured with set stop markings, not to mention it's harder to reach way over there and set back a bit (Fuji/Sony). Olympus (EM-1) is amazingly designed and doesn't have any "stop" markings. It's just another wheel right next to your thumb, perfectly positioned and the tension is great on it also. Not too hard to turn like most others. Panasonic is kind of in the middle of those. (Gx8)
Instead of that huge round button, personally I would like to have a small LCD screen/ auto focus selection mode/ metering mode, etc.
I'm a fan of EC now that I'm shooting a camera with reliable metering (meters off the subject under the AF point) and an EC dial. Previously, I thought it was a useless setting. Technology matters.
Not sure. I haven't really be shooting (well) long enough to have tried it. I'm glad it's there in case I discover it one day and fall in love. If not, just one more thing my camera can do that I pretty much ignore.
I use Exposure Compensation quite a lot on my Canon, but I can't think of having such a huge knob for it. Just my 2 cents.
Easy and intuitive access to the EC function is important for me when I shoot sports or wildlife with rapidly changing lighting conditions. But a multi function dial should be enough.
You make a very good case for using exposure compensation: "My approach might be to shoot a test shot in auto (often "P" on a camera's mode dial), check the histogram, switch to manual mode, and make adjustments from there. Alternatively, with the exposure compensation function, you can stay in auto mode…"
You can turn one dial that is close to the shutter release, or you can continually jump back and forth from P to manual??!? I know what I would choose.
Also, your informal survey shower that more than half the photographers use EC and you conclude it's a waste of space?!?
What a bizarre rant.
Was thinking the same thing, on both counts!
There was no conclusions? Here's the caption from the image of the XT-2: "The Fujifilm X-T2. That enormous dial on the far right is completely unnecessary." Also: "Given how useless the exposure compensation function is…", "This dial is a complete waste of space…". These are all strongly worded conclusions. :)
Are you really arguing about the phrasing? It definitely sounds like your conclusion. Writing "This dial IS a complete waste of space.." sounds like you already made up your mind. Otherwise you would have written "seems like" instead of "is".
Yes, in the traditional way, the conclusion comes at the end but as I said, your choice of words makes it sound like you've concluded that the function is kind of and the dial completely useless.
With the exception of the last part (where you do challenge your own assumption), the article sounds like a rant because you seem to think that just because you don't see the area of application, nobody does, and the camera manufacturers must have been drunk or wanted to fill the empty space with something or whatever
That line stuck out to me as well. Sounds like a good way to miss my shot. It also adds a completely unnecessary step if you're using a mirrorless camera, pretty much all which are capable of displaying live histograms in the EVF.
Manual has it's place, but exposure compensation is far from "useless".
I use EV every day. About 1/2 of my business is shooting interiors (design, staging, luxury real estate, specialized builder work, etc) and I frequently work in AV. I shoot on a Canon so the knob isn't there and the function is second nature, so I don't think a knob is necessary. With that being said, this is the only genre I use EV, so maybe it's a little specialized. Every other project style I shoot in manual with no use for EV. Just my two cents.
It can be useful at times if you're shooting in an auto or semi-auto mode and you know enough about your camera and lighting conditions to know that a particular scene is likely to fool your camera's metering. It's quicker to just dial in EV Compensation rather than switch over to Manual Mode for such a scenario.
It's becoming less of an issue as cameras get more intelligent with their Matrix Metering, but with some older cameras, I know that if I'm on Aperture Priority, I need to dial in +2 EV Compensation for snowy scenes. Why wouldn't I just shoot in Manual in the first place and avoid the issue entirely? It's slower and lighting conditions outside are always changing so sometimes being in Aperture Priority just makes more sense for the sake of speed and efficiency if you're moving around on the street.
Amen to that.
No one has mentioned the differences between using EC on a mirrorless with live histogram in the viewfinder as opposed to a dSLR with only the meter's recommendation in the viewfinder. Chalk and cheese. Aperture Priority with EC is fast and easy to judge with the live histogram right in your field of view.
When I shoot my DSLR I'm more often than not shooting "planned shots." When I'm just out and about taking opportunistic shots, I'm shooting my fuji. In the latter situation, the dial is very useful indeed.
I use it a lot when doing my weddings, although my Nikon doesn't have a big dial for it, it's still so easy to access that it becomes a second nature for my fingers!
It's just a crutch for people that can't shoot manual. I shoot just about everything. Concerts, realestate, magic shows, races, events... I shoot RAW in full manual. I use live view to set exposure and change settings on the fly as I shoot. I was not happy that my bodies had a dedicated button for exp comp that I couldn't change to something useful. It's the body with the dial that drives me crazy though,because I don't use it, I rarely look at it, and sometimes it gets turned by accident. I have considered super gluing it.
Oh! Those horrifically awful wastes of bone and flesh! if we could cleanse the Earth and get rid of them we would all be better off! Thank you for being the holotype to which we can all aspire.
Ahh, the classic "I don't use it and I'm not smart enough to envision a scenario where it would be useful, so I'll just call everybody else idiots instead." You could just say "I don't have a use for it" and move on. Which might be a good idea for you next time so you don't end up looking like an idiot yourself.
It's extremely useful in scenarios where you would use auto ISO, especially on cameras that don't have a dedicated ISO dial. Think events or other fast paced scenarios where you know the shutter speed and aperture you want, but there are fluctuations in light between scenes/people etc. You could constantly toy with your ISO to adjust the exposure but you'd be missing shots. Set it to auto, let the camera make the small adjustments while you keep your other 2 settings locked, and if you notice that you need the ISO to be a little higher or lower for a given scene, you adjust it through 1 spin of the exp comp dial vs tapping a menu button and selecting a different value (which you would have to do constantly if you were shooting in "full manual").
Sure, that's not exactly something a landscape photographer might need but it's a far cry from being a "crutch" and completely useless.
Just put a top stop on auto ISO in manual mode for that if you want to. I prefer, no matter how fast the action to set my camera myself, at the settings of my choice. It has always worked for me and I never have to question what the camera might chose to do. I have read a lot of how people use this, and I just don't get it. This is just me, but I like to be in control.
I do set a limit for Auto ISO; you're still missing the point. They're 2 separate functions. The range prevents the camera from choosing something crazy high that otherwise might ruin your shot; but it's not the same thing as being able to quickly control the exposure from shot to shot while still operating with ISO on auto. Again, I'm not saying anything crazy like "it's the only way to shoot and if you don't do it that way then you're obviously a cripple" (ahem), I'm simply saying that there's a fairly common use case for it and I'm actually a little confused about what's so hard to understand here. It seems pretty basic to me.
Hilarious. Autofocus must be a feature that irritates people as well
...so what you're saying is you use Live View as a "crutch" to avoid learning how to use your camera's meter?
I am saying I set my exposure myself. It is 3 settings and rarely do you have to change more then 2 for a shot. I use live view, meter and histogram for setting exposure. I don't rely on the camera to "correct" what I have chosen as correct.
Why would you use live view to set exposure? Are you using a mirrorless camera?
Your problem seems to be that you are stubborn and close minded more than anything else. Do you also wash your clothes in the river, in full manual so to say? Please tell me oh wise one, if you change your shutter speed from 1/200 to 1/100 what would the difference be if you compare it to dailing your exposure compensation to +1 in aperture mode?


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