> Without a mechanical edit, what's the real benefit? > Since there are tens of thousands of each, rendering, editing and processing > tools must cover all styles. > A human viewer will see each style also. There are various tags that we have decided are "deprecated" like building=entrance is an obvious example which has been replaced with entrance=*. The JOSM validator will give a warning if you use this tag but 55 900 objects in the database that still use it. Someone attempted an undiscussed mechanical edit of this in the past and got reverted. Similar examples are power=sub_station, power=station, oneway=true, oneway=1, oneway=-1, etc.
There tends to be a widespread dislike of large-scale mechanical edits among the OSM administrators so I don't want to do that. There is also the issue that some objects might have both the regular and contact: tag set with different phone numbers or websites. (OSM ought to allow commas in values to allow for more than one website or phone number). _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
