Great work Frederik thanks, I'll also be monitoring the progress, considering the VERY high likelihood, that tag changes will be needed for the Canada Import at some later date.
Cheers, Sam Twitter: @Acrosscanada Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I have started the job that removes the unnecessary TIGER node tags > (and removes the nodes themselves should no tags remain and the nodes be > unused - this applies only to a small number of nodes). > > As discussed here, we'll remove "tiger_tlid", "tiger:upload_uuid" (and > the misspelled variant "tiger:upload_uid"), "tiger:county", and > "tiger:source". We will also remove "source" but only if one of the > other tags is present AND the content of "source" refers to TIGER. > > You can see which area is currently being processed, and what has > already been done: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/woodpeck_fixbot/edits > > The job will generally work in county-sized chunks, but don't expect > that once it has visited a county it's done with it - many counties will > have to be visited multiple times because they have so many nodes. Also, > it can always happen that some edits fail during the first run, and > these left-over nodes will then be picked up later. > > The job does not proceed evenly but instead jumps randomly across the > US, doing one county here then one county there. This is because I want > to avoid that someone who e.g. regularly processes all changes in > California suddenly has millions of changes in a few days - I'd rather > spread things out a bit to soften the impact for everyone. > > I'll closely monitor the job but if any of you should notice something > strange, please do tell me. > > Initial results are a bit disappointing speed-wise, I am currently not > sure if we'll make the November target but we'll see. > > I'll keep you posted on major developments, milestones, etc. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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