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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jan 26, 2021, 19:05 by stefan.tauner@gmx.at:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:37:24 -0500<br></div><div>"Brian M. Sperlongano" <zelonewolf@gmail.com> wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>Well, you have my support. Inertia and the fear of object revision counts<br></div><div>by one are a poor excuse for keeping obviously useless cruft in the<br></div><div>database.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Imports and automated edits are subject to discussion for a reason and<br></div><div>you should never just do it without substantial feedback. However,<br></div><div>not every "automated" edit is equally risky or potentially harmful. The<br></div><div>risk of destroying anything of value here is about nil. I don't value<br></div><div>the argument of big BBes not at all either (from a human perspective at<br></div><div>least - is there are technical reason to avoid big BBes?).<br></div><div><br></div><div>However, we should also make sure that it does not come back.<br></div><div>Documenting it in the wiki is therefore useful, thanks for the addition.<br></div><div>Also, somebody might want to make sure that the source of 90% of these<br></div><div>entries gets fixed. No, idea if anybody still uses that track2osm but<br></div><div>it still contains the code that creates these entries:<br></div><div><br></div><div>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Track2osm<br></div><div><br></div><div>Did anybody check when that tag has been added the last time? Removing<br></div><div>the tags globally once is OK IMHO but doing it every month because they<br></div><div>still get added again would certainly not be a good idea :)<br></div><div>The resolution of the chronology is not good enough to discern that.<br></div></blockquote><div>Looking at taginfo it seems to be that source is clearly fixed<br></div><div><a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/converted_by#chronology">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/converted_by#chronology</a><br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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