Hi,
The user GerdP seems to be going around editing things with unusual
highway=* tags, apparently in an attempt to standardize them.
In my opinion, some of these changes are positive and some are negative,
but the negatives outweigh the positives.
As a positive example, GerdP seems to have searched for highway=trunk on
a node, and removed the tag. (e.g.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1245912029/history)
As a negative example, they seem to have deemed the tag
highway=residential_link bad, and replaced it with either
highway=service or highway=residential.
(https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/18820600/history,
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/262798921/history).
An in-between example: on
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/38089492/history,
highway=stepping_stones was replaced with highway=path. While this helps
consumers use the data, it loses information that should have been kept
(perhaps with surface=* or something similar).
Does anyone know if this was discussed anywhere? I've contacted GerdP
with a changeset comment at
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/35109232 but there hasn't (yet)
been much time for a response. Also note that this isn't a single
changeset but rather something GerdP does regularly, so many changesets
over many days.
--Andrew
P.S.: We should have something like a [email protected] mailing list so
that these kinds of things have a place to be discussed, because there
are a lot of positives to be had...
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