On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:30 PM, andrzej zaborowski <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 July 2010 02:26, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: >> But as I've shown (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/44945783) >> the tlids don't even make sense. "tiger:tlid = >> 86486485:86486486:86486387; >> 86507262:86489492:86507324:86490164:86489590:86489573:86490037:86489467:86490875:86490202:86499582:86497723:86486483:86486384:86486386:86520528:86520529:86489713:86489637:86489612:86489601"? >> Just for that short little bridge? This info should be right (which >> means *one* tlid) or it shouldn't be there at all. We shouldn't keep >> this crap around "just for the hell of it". > > By deleting it you're not making it more correct.
Never said I was. But deleting incorrect information is better than leaving it around, even if it isn't as good as correcting it. > Probably the bridge > just corresponds to one TLID (if you can't be bothered checking which, > a good rule is leave it alone for someone to fix), but there are other > situations where one way will correspond to two or more TLIDs. How would I even go about checking? Is this really something we should be doing every time we make a bridge? Yes, there are situations where one way will correspond to two or more TLIDs. But probably 95% or more of the times I deal with TIGER ways I am splitting ways, not combining them. In any case, I disagree that it's better to leave information you know to be wrong in rather than deleting it. Perhaps that's our fundamental disagreement. If I see something that's wrong, I'd rather delete it than just leave it. If there were a relatively easy way for me to fix then I'd do that, but with tlids I don't know of any remotely easy way to look up the right information. As for tiger:name_base, tiger:name_type, etc., if there's someone that's using that information, we definitely should take it out of the tiger namespace. I'd be happy to move it from tiger:name_base=* to name_base=* instead of deleting it, if someone is using it and would take 5 minutes to put something up on the wiki announcing it. If it's useful, then it's useful for non-tiger ways as well as tiger ways. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
