On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Bryce Nesbitt <[email protected]> wrote: > The GNIS tag cleanup... might that be better as a true bulk edit?
I'm working on a proposal to address the issues discussed already, as well as some that have been long outstanding issues on the wiki. > With the editors dropping the tag: > * Any agent depending on the gnis tags will see their data slowly melt away > over a period of years. > * Since tag removal at save time is silent, a person saving a node won't see > it the way it will be saved. > In particular if the ele= tag conversion is done, it would be better for a > hand mapper to see the changed tag and have a chance to supply an elevation. > > There's so little value in these gnis tags, and so many of them, seems like > bulk has some merit? Dropping tags doesn't really warrant a mass edit IMHO, but things like fixing the feature_id tags, fixing the fcode tags, and removing the ele tags are examples of where a bot would do the job more quickly. Additionally, the wiki mentions that 5% of GNIS objects are historical and do not exist on the ground. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/USGS_GNIS#Removing_historical_features Objects which do not exist should be removed. So between all this, the fixing of various tags, and removal of most other tags, yes, I will write up a proposal (the code is basically there now, but I want to revise it). - Serge _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
