[Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-28 Thread Toby Murray
Some people may not even be aware of this but JOSM silently discards the created_by tag if it exists on any object you change and upload to the API. This tag was deemed unnecessary and counterproductive a long time ago and this is just a way of cleaning it out of the database as people edit. Not

Re: [Talk-us] National Park boundaries

2012-07-28 Thread Daniel Sabo
If you're OK with using non-rendering tags you should use the established boundary=protected_area instead of something US specific ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area#Protect_classes_for_various_countries ). If you want it to render the convention I've been using

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-28 Thread Mike N
On 7/28/2012 3:33 AM, Toby Murray wrote: Not really sure about the zip code tags. I find the county and zip code tags to be useful at times to tell me where I'm located when doing Mapdust cleanup. I could probably come up with some other way to find myself if they weren't there, but it's

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-28 Thread Anthony
I'm all for upload_uuid being removed automatically. As for tiger:separated, is it possible to remove the tag only if it's set to no? The 1.4% that are set to something else should probably be reviewed manually. On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Some

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-28 Thread Toby Murray
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: I'm all for upload_uuid being removed automatically. As for tiger:separated, is it possible to remove the tag only if it's set to no? The 1.4% that are set to something else should probably be reviewed manually. Might be

Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags

2012-07-28 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: I'm all for upload_uuid being removed automatically. As for tiger:separated, is it possible to remove the tag only if it's set to no? The 1.4% that are set

Re: [Talk-us] railway=abandoned and mapping things that are not there any more?

2012-07-28 Thread Russ Nelson
Toby Murray writes: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Peter Dobratz wrote: I'm trying to get a better understanding of the railway=abandoned tag and see what the community thinks about it. FWIW there's been a similar discussion on