...and of course that would require a declaration of A is right and B is wrong, or at least A is better than B, which will annoy the free-taggers who are against all standardisation and normalisation as that potentially limits the creative freedom of mappers who may not even have been born yet...
If there is true consensus about A being better than B, then the community as a whole should not have a problem about retagging. Whether it is manual or automated should make no difference, assuming the result is the same. We have no way of reaching consensus, only by attrition where the combatants drop off one by one as they progressively lose the will to live. On 2016-03-05 08:19, Jo wrote: > That inertia of obsoleted legacy has everything to do with the fact we > discourage mechanical edits. If somebody were to fix all those > building=entrance to become entrance=main on nodes, their changesets would > probably be reverted. So why even bother? It's more fun to map new stuff than > to fix stuff that nobody sees anyway... > > Polyglot > > 2016-03-05 7:55 GMT+01:00 Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com>: > >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Because something has been in existence does not mean it cannot ever be >>> changed! >>> Consider the power sub station ... that was gradually changed to a new >>> tagging scheme. >> >> But it can take years :-(, >> >> 1/4 of the sub_station/substation tags are still sub_station: [1] >> >> Another obsolete tag that is still is "in use" is building=entrance, >> see [2] still over 40.000 places usign a tag that has been obsoleted >> over 4 years ago.(*) >> Legacy tags are hard to get rid of. >> >> m. >> >> [1] >> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/power=sub_station/power=substation >> [2] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/building=entrance/entrance >> >> (*) I think it's over 4 years, the wiki page mentions "overtaken in 2012". >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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