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Toby, I really think you need to read through the conversation archived at <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2018-August/thread.html" id="LPlnk429957">
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2018-August/thread.html</a> and answer the points discussed there.</div>
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Andrew<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Toby Speight <T.M.Speight.90@cantab.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 27 August 2018 19:15<br>
<b>To:</b> talk-gb@openstreetmap.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Talk-GB] Road refs</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Recently, all the tertiary roads in my region had their ref tags<br>
removed, and replaced with "highways_authority_ref". A week later the<br>
unclassified and residential roads suffered similar attack.<br>
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* Who is supposed to benefit from hiding these data?<br>
* Who is responsible for documenting what this tag means, and when it<br>
should be used in place of the standard tagging? So far, there's no<br>
mention of it on its own tag wiki, nor on key:ref<br>
* Who is responsible for coordinating the related changes to software -<br>
editors, renderers, converters and QA tools - that are required? I<br>
see no sign of any of this having started.<br>
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In short, what's going on, what's wrong with the standard tagging, and<br>
how can we get the data back where they belong?<br>
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