Dear mappers from Japan, first of, I'm sorry I have to write in English to this list.
Due to different reasons (mainly MapRoulette) I'm often mapping in Japan. I came accross huge amounts of imports (mostly KSJ2 as source, but others, too). One thing I discovered that I find annoying (mostly when using JOSM): For a huge amount of ways not only a source- and source_ref-tag was added but also a note- and note:ja-tag. E.g. note=National-Land Numerical Information (Administrative area) 2008, MLIT Japan note:ja=国土数値情報（行政区域データ）平成20年 国土交通省 These tags were not only added to the ways but also to their nodes. See e.g. this way http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/55877995#map=14/36.1056/137.8007 and one of the way's nodes here http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/701559083#map=19/36.08733/137.75999 According to the Mechanical Edit Policy in a first step edits have to be discussed. As it matters for Japan only, I chose the talk-ja mailing list. In my opinion, at least all note- and note:ja tags on nodes should be removed if the same note- and note:ja-tag is present on the according way, too. Not only is the current information redundant but it's also a misuse of the note-tag (at least according to the English wiki description, see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Note). I'd help to document and execute such edits (whatever the details of this discussion might be). But I'd be even more happy if a native speaker would deal with this matter so that the Japanese community is not forced to discuss this in English only. Anyway, in a first step this should be discussed. Thanks and kind regards, Peda _______________________________________________ Talk-ja mailing list Talk-ja@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ja
