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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">24 Oct 2019, 22:48 by rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,<br></div><div><br></div><div><i>Before I start this message, I would like to say that I am looking for solutions and not wishing to open the flood gates on abuse of the iD editors. On the whole they do a great job and even when we disagree it should be with respect. Right now on to the message itself:</i><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>It seems like the iD editor's "upgrade this" feature is replacing crossing=zebra with crossing=marked but NOT adding crossing_ref=zebra to the node. If lots of users make use of this "feature" in the UK then we stand to lose some valuable data. Taginfo UK says there are 4,710 crossing=zebra features in the UK.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have added a comment on to the GitHub issue but no reply yet.<br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/6962" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/6962</a><br></div></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">I would suggest opening a new issue request GB specific - maybe with something like <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">"I checked sample of 100 crossing tagged this way, error rate is low".<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Comments in a closed issue are likely to be lost/unnoticed.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Though with just 5k crossing it seems that bot edit would be preferable if<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- error rate is considered low<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- crossing_ref tagging is acceptable<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- there is no realistic plan to fight with iD over deprecating crossing=zebra<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- bot edits are considered as acceptable<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Why bot edit is preferable?<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- cooperation with iD developers is not necessary<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- more people can do it (I may do it in case of a clear support)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">- adding complex region-based handling for 5k objects is making maintenance of editor<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> complex, it is likely to not be done by iD developers<br></div> </body>
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