On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 4:02 PM OSM Volunteer stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > The usage of a tag (via taginfo) does give some indication of its usefulness > (e.g. school can't be that important a boundary tag if there are only nine or > ten of them in all of OSM), unless massive numbers of them were imported, as > from TIGER and these MTFCC and FUNCSTAT crufty stuff. But when we can hardly > figure them out (although Kenny did a great job explaining what they MIGHT > mean) AND they are from a "hoary old import" (as TIGER is often called), > there really is good argument to remove them. I'd vote to do so in a > heartbeat (if were collecting votes, and we don't appear to be doing so). > Hence, my logic-outline instead. If they are essentially useless — and many > seem to agree they are — I believe it is prudent to remove them.
I don't disagree. Ordinarily, though, I don't advocate removing tags or objects unless they are clearly wrong, and not just useless - hence my agreement that the (historic) GNIS points are actively harmful. Still, given the amount of trouble that I had figuring out FUNCSTAT from the documentation, it might cross over into 'harmful' since my guess is that every reasonable interpretation of that confusing schema is misleading. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
