On 06/11/2015 20:42, Andrew Guertin wrote:
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).
Hmm - that does look like somewhere where data has been lost. Previously
there were quite a lot of changeset discussion comments from GerdP
asking about odd values:
http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussions (scroll down a bit)
I'd have expected that that change would have merited a request to the
original mapper too - surprised it didn't get one.
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.
Given how quiet OSM traffic normally goes at weekends, I'd certainly
wait until next week before assuming that you won't get a reply.
P.S.: We should have something like a clean...@osm.org mailing list so
that these kinds of things have a place to be discussed, because there
are a lot of positives to be had...
I'm not especially convinced of that - we've got the "tagging" list
already for "how should X be tagged", and it's important that
discussions about edits which at the very least border on the mechanical
should be discussed by the wider community though. Sometimes "tagging"
can turn into a bit of an echo chamber; it can appear to be full of
people who tell other people how to map rather than do it themselves*,
and I'd expect that "cleanups" would too. The "discuss" section of
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct
covers this already.
Cheers,
Andy (SomeoneElse)
*
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2015-October/027053.html
guilty as charged :)
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