The GeoBase and CanVec imports in the lower mainland suffered from two tagging errors I propose fixing with two one-time mechanical edits.
1. surface=unpaved service ways GeoBase and CanVec highway=service ways are mis-tagged with surface=unpaved regardless of if they are paved or not. I propose removing this tag as it is misleading. To avoid removal of this tag where a mapper has reviewed it, I will only do the obvious cases automatically and review the others. The obvious case is ways where none of the tagging has changed since the import with the possible exception of geobase:uuid which may have been combined with the value from another way in a merge. These will be identified by the tags attribution=GeoBaseR geobase:acquisitionTechnique=Orthophoto geobase:datasetName=NRN:British Columbia geobase:uuid=* source=Geobase_Import_2009 surface=unpaved highway=service 2. Double-spaced names GeoBase and CanVec sometimes have names with two spaces in them. For example, "West 70th Street". I propose fixing these. Unfortunately this is less automated and will require searching through the road network with JOSM for name:" ". The edit will be from my imports/mechanical edit account and appropriately documented. As these edits will require touching a large number of roads I also propose cleaning up unnecessary meta-information from the import that is duplicated by other tags. For example, geobase:datasetName=NRN:British Columbia can be inferred from source=Geobase_Import_2009, being located in BC, and matching highway=*. It is not worth creating a new version of objects solely to remove these tags, but since fixing the tagging requires creating a new object anyways it is worth doing it in this case. _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
