On Saturday 09 June 2018, Michael Reichert wrote: > > Did you investigate who used that tag and maybe why? Was it a bot, a > editor preset, an import or manual user input? I would like to have > this question answered before a mechanical edit.
I had looked at this after Mateusz's announcement and it seems fairly broad in origin: * Both iD and JOSM * mostly manual mapping * a large portion seems from HOT mapping in southern Africa and Bangladesch (probably about half) so it might be a good idea for HOT to look into improving education of their mappers in proper use of building tags and diligence and exactness in entering tags. * occurrences look fairly scattered in most cases so it seems this is rarely mappers always using the wrong tag. By the way - do editors, in particular JOSM validator of course, detect tagging mistakes of this kind in some form? This is a slippery slope because you easily end up with the condescending Google style 'did you mean to search for Y instead of X?'. But things like: * key and value identical * single character variation of a common tag with no significant use on its own * mixup of common keys like landuse/leisure, water/waterway etc. are things that could be hinted cautiously to the user to be possible errors. From JOSM i only know the message that a value is not in presets - which would catch these errors as well but which is not that meaningful. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk