A simple example is that often I'll see a POI node, and I'll go ahead
and draw the building outline and put the data on the building. I draw
the building and delete the node.
Good case. Do you just delete the node without checking whether it has useful
tags and relations which need to be copied to the polygon?
Here's a case where a tool fix could do a world of good.
The Potlatch/2 "R" shortcut does not work to copy tags from a node to a way.
Converting a POI node to a building outline is thus a skilled task if
you don't want to damage the original tags.
Imagine instead two new icons in the bottom right corner of Potlatch/2:
Convert node --> way
Convert way --> node
Which preserve tags. The GNIS
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:USGS_GNIS> import data would
benefit greatly. Potlatch mappers could take all those point features
and turn them into outlines, but not disturb the most important keys.
I'd even like to see a feature in the API to "lock" certain keys. At
the time of import you could declare certain keys (e.g.
*gnis:feature_id*) as read-only. The API would reject an attempt to
modify those fields. Of course you could still delete the entire
feature, but I think it would be step to preserving data needed for
conflation.
Would import folks get behind improvements to Potlatch to reduce damage
to imported features?
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