Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2012/5/29 Phil Endecott <[email protected]>:
No doubt at some point someone
decided that "lake:shore_length:miles=2" was a useful thing to record, and
you want to remove it. Ã Why?
because there is no such thing as a "shore length", it depends on the
resolution. Aside from this there is also no tradition in OSM to
record units in the key. So this particular key really doesn't seem to
make any sense (the length of the shore in OSM-precision is already in
the data geometry). See also here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox
This is of course true, and "Worst Fixer"'s table at
http://worstfixer.000a.biz/04-intermittent/overview-short.html would
benefit from a column giving a whole series of justifications like this
for each of the proposed changes.
Regards, Phil.
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