Paul, Agreed- and most of why I put this away was that I felt the discussion had gone off the rails, with people loudly objecting to things which had never been proposed.
The other suggestions were: * Rename identifier tags which have the incorrect tag (feature_id which are not feature_id). * Reclassify objects which are currently gnis but should be other datasets (non-gnis). These two suggestions cannot be done "organically" without a concerted effort, so we may want to create a separate proposal just to handle them, separate from this proposal. - Serge On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Paul Norman <[email protected]> wrote: > To recap and hopefully move forwards, I'm bringing this up again. > >> From: Serge Wroclawski [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 1:55 PM >> Subject: [Talk-us] GNIS tag removal proposal >> >> Hi all, >> >> I've been looking at the GNIS data and it's quite a mess. >> >> As a step towards cleaning up the mess, I'd like to discuss removing >> some extranious gnis tags in the editors (just as we do with TIGER and >> other tags). >> >> I would like to suggest that the editors remove the following tags >> entirely: >> >> gnis:ST_num >> gnis:ST_alpha >> gnis:feature_type >> gnis:created >> gnis:state_id >> gnis:county_id >> gnis:county_name >> gnis:feature_type >> gnis:import_uuid >> gnis:reviewed >> gnis:edited >> gnis:description >> gnis:County >> gnis:Class >> gnis:County_num > > To summarize the discussion > > - Several people objected to the removal of gnis:feature_id, and it's > removal was never proposed. > > - There was objection to this changing the last edited user, which it > wouldn't, it only removes tags when a user is editing the object > anyways. > >> In addition, I suggest that we remove two other tags conditionally. >> >> I suggest we remove the "ele" tag unless the tag natural=peak is present >> and that we remove "source" if the value for that tag is "USGS Geonames" >> (which is just GNIS). > > - Other cases where ele is useful were pointed out (aeroway) > > Given that we don't currently have the technical ability to do this while > adding to the discarded tag list is easy, I suggest we put this on hold > until later. We need to have a better look at what GNIS data has an ele=* > tag and where it is silly. > > Unless there are serious objections I plan to open a pull request adding > listed tags to the discard list. > > To reiterate, this does NOT impact gnis:feature_id and the tags will ONLY > be removed if someone is already editing the object. > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
