[OSM-talk] Overpass API turned off due to Upload Filter thread

2019-03-20 Thread Roland Olbricht
Hello everybody, on 26th March the European parliament will vote on the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. This directive would as a side effect threaten the OpenStreetMap project with substantial legal and technical burdens, see https://www.openstreetmap.de/uf/en.html To infor

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit - elimination of osmarender:nameDirection - blatant tagging for the renderer

2019-03-20 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 15.03.19 21:13, Simon Poole wrote: > Why would we want to create new versions of objects just to remove a tag > that is not hurting anybody in any way? Mostly for the reason which Mateusz has mentioned in his response: Keeping obsolete tagging around for years or decades adds to the burden of c

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit - elimination of osmarender:nameDirection - blatant tagging for the renderer

2019-03-20 Thread Dave F via talk
I'd say almost certainly, yes. Do you have any specific tags in mind? DaveF On 17/03/2019 21:27, Andrew Hain wrote: Is it worth mechanically removing any of the existing discardable tags from the database as well? -- Andrew From: Dave F via talk Sent: 17 Marc