Frederik Good plan.
One thing though - what order is this being done in? There might be arguments for doing geographic areas or some number ranges, or something, before others. Yours &c. Steve On 6 Aug 2009, at 12:34, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Dear all, > > Andy Allan has made a convincing case about superfluous node tags > in > this posting on dev: > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2009-June/016009.html > > I have meanwhile prepared the process for the deletion of these tags, > and have laid out an estimate of the volumes and timespans here: > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2009-July/016401.html > > The "executive summary" of both these postings is that it'll be about > 100 days of intense automatic editing activity and then we'll > hopefully > be through, and have a leaner data set (by 50% or better) which will > benefit everyone, but especially the US users: > > * faster editing due to smaller data volume > * faster and easier data processing for US data > * as a consequence, some useful tools and services which are currently > "Europe only" might be more readily available for the US > > The process will drop "source", "tiger:tlid", "tiger:upload_uuid" and > "tiger:county" from all nodes which have at least one of the three > "tiger" tags. It will not drop "source" from other nodes. If a node is > found to be tagless after removing these, and the node is not used by > any way, it will be removed entirely. > > Apollinaris has voiced concerns that such an intense edit activity > might > lead to more conflicts when trying to upload changes. Yes, this is > true, > but the increase is very small indeed and will be further reduced by a > tight regional grouping of edits. (Nevertheless, while the automated > edit is ongoing, it is even more advisable than at other times to not > stretch JOSM edit sessions over hours on end.) > > If I don't hear strong objection then I will let the automated process > commence this weekend. It will work in small chunks, so can always be > paused, and I will post instructions that allow you to monitor > progress > (and see which area is currently processed). Like every edit, it can > also be reverted should the need arise, but of course reverting 100 > days > worth of edits is something I'd rather not contemplate. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" > E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
