Hi Tony, Please do read the conversation, but I think it's important to stress that no one is changing the standard tagging here. It has never been standard to map unsigned references for tertiary/unclassified roads under the ref tag; indeed there has long been a consensus against doing so.
The UK tagging guidelines have always advised against using the ref tag: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines although you'll notice from that there's still no overall agreement on exactly which other tag to use for unsigned references. I do believe this should have been discussed before the mechanical edit. As a reminder, if you are adding unsigned references you do need to make sure that you're using an acceptable source which doesn't infringe council copyright. ie. a source that is released under a public licence such as the Open Government Licence or one which we have explicit permission to include in OSM and release under the ODBL. Kind regards Adam On Mon, 27 Aug 2018, 19:16 Toby Speight, <t.m.speight...@cantab.net> wrote: > Recently, all the tertiary roads in my region had their ref tags > removed, and replaced with "highways_authority_ref". A week later the > unclassified and residential roads suffered similar attack. > > * Who is supposed to benefit from hiding these data? > * Who is responsible for documenting what this tag means, and when it > should be used in place of the standard tagging? So far, there's no > mention of it on its own tag wiki, nor on key:ref > * Who is responsible for coordinating the related changes to software - > editors, renderers, converters and QA tools - that are required? I > see no sign of any of this having started. > > In short, what's going on, what's wrong with the standard tagging, and > how can we get the data back where they belong? > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > On 27 Aug 2018 19:16, "Toby Speight" <t.m.speight...@cantab.net> wrote: Recently, all the tertiary roads in my region had their ref tags removed, and replaced with "highways_authority_ref". A week later the unclassified and residential roads suffered similar attack. * Who is supposed to benefit from hiding these data? * Who is responsible for documenting what this tag means, and when it should be used in place of the standard tagging? So far, there's no mention of it on its own tag wiki, nor on key:ref * Who is responsible for coordinating the related changes to software - editors, renderers, converters and QA tools - that are required? I see no sign of any of this having started. In short, what's going on, what's wrong with the standard tagging, and how can we get the data back where they belong? _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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