Benjamin, Doing mass tagging or mass renaming is quite a difficult process in OSM. I did a more modest mass tagging change last year, renaming millions of road names in the US from "Rd" to "Road", and that process took almost six months of discussion and debate before it was approved, and what was eventually approved was a far more modest proposal than I'd hoped.
To do the kind of work that you're proposing in an automated way would require a lot of analysis and work generally. If you're talking about millions of roads, in a process that is very testable and highly automatable, then I suggest you continue down this road, but use the import community to test your code and process. If not, then I suggest a more modest process of using either the OSM Tasking Manager[1], or Maproulette to manage this process. - Serge [1] The official name for the tasking manager is the OSM Tasking Manager, not the HOT Tasking Manager. The HOT Tasking Manager is the instance of the OSM Tasking Manager that exists for HOT tasks (of which this would not be one). _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
