On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM, andrzej zaborowski <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with > Anthony that these tags are useless *except* this one tag, the Id *is* > useful, please don't remove it.
What's useful about it? Or to ask the question a different way, what is the tag supposed to mean? On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:11 PM, andrzej zaborowski <[email protected]> wrote: > To clarify what I mean, a good measure is probably whether you're > changing the name on the road. If you're changing the geometry > (splitting, merging, whatever) or fixing the spelling or expanding > abbrevs, keep the Id. If you're changing the name to a whole > different one, remove the id. There must be a better way to compare the name of a road than counting on all the editors to copy/preserve the tiger id. When you merge two TIGER ways which id do you keep? Or should you keep them both (separated by a semicolon)? Where is this documented? Unless you can point me to some documentation as to what the tiger id *means* (*), I'm not going to think about it at all. Sometimes I keep it, sometimes I delete it, sometimes I delete the whole way and create a new one in its place (without any of the tiger tags). And I'm sure I'm not the only one. (*) I take it to mean simply that the originally imported way came from a certain TIGER way, which is preserved in the way history _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
