<div dir="auto">I say "go"</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op wo 5 feb. 2020 16:37 schreef Midgard <<a href="mailto:midgard%2Btalkbe@janmaes.com">midgard+talkbe@janmaes.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear mappers<br>
<br>
If you ever touched a place node, chances are you saw it was cluttered with:<br>
- tags with a "openGeoDB:" prefix and<br>
- "is_in" tags.<br>
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I hereby propose a mechanical edit to delete those from all features in Belgium.<br>
The Overpass query to fetch the data is <a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Qqa" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Qqa</a><br>
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- The openGeoDB tags date to 2008, when the plan was to keep populations updated from the openGeoDB<br>
database. This never happened and probably never will.<br>
Information about OpenGeoDB on the wiki: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenGeoDB" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenGeoDB</a><br>
For an example, see <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/79382706/history" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/79382706/history</a><br>
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- The is_in tags are largely obsolete. The administrative boundaries replace them.<br>
They're also not uniform in OSM to begin with. Some examples:<br>
- Beernem: is_in=Belgie, Vlaanderen, West-Vlaanderen<br>
- Sint-Andries: is_in=Brugge,West-Vlaanderen,Belgium,Europe<br>
- Hoekskensstraat: is_in=Lebbeke, Oost-Vlaanderen<br>
- Meise: is_in=Vlaams-Brabant,Belgium,Europe<br>
is_in:continent=Europe<br>
is_in:country=Belgium<br>
is_in:province=Flemish Brabant<br>
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Why remove them? For data users they create the impression that this is data they can use.<br>
Mappers may be confused about them and waste time maintaining them. They are not useful to anyone.<br>
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I'd like to collectively make a decision ("go" or "no go") by the end of the month, 29 February.<br>
Please send in your comments, even if it's just "not sure, maybe we shouldn't do this"!<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Midgard<br>
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