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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 8, 2021, 08:11 by dieterdreist@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>sent from a phone<br></div><blockquote><div>On 7 Feb 2021, at 12:36, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div>using names for descriptions is not a commonly accepted mapping<br></div><div>removing it on encountering is accepted and encouraged<br></div><div>large scale edits doing this are a welcome cleanup<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>no, you cannot do diligent large scale cleanups of names, because you have to individually check whether it is the individual name or not<br></div></blockquote><div>If there is name=Tree added to every single tree in an a given area then you can.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Or rescuing [name=Buildings area=yes] areas.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4364402197">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4364402197</a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6261912982">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6261912982</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>See <a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/13kR">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/13kR</a> for name=Tree<br></div><div><br></div><div>Some cases are fixable without on the ground survey.<br></div><div><br></div><div>or name=Casa (that means house in one of languages)<br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/674753368">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/674753368</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7636768264">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7636768264</a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7636780816">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7636780816</a> etc<br></div><div><br></div><div>See <a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/13kT">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/13kT</a> for global scan.<br></div><div><br></div><div>PS Obviously, blind editing is a bad idea.<br></div><div>Someone caused recently damage in Poland <br></div><div>due to mindless removal of name=House<br></div><div><br></div><div>See <a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(marka)">https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(marka)</a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7992170420">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7992170420</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>but see <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/799792657">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/799792657</a><br></div><div>and <a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/13kX">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/13kX</a> in general<br></div> </body>
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