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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/12/2021 02:38, Jbrsk B wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thank-you both, and Merry Christmas to all!
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<div>says:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Correcting obvious typos,
for example changing <tt
style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:20.125px">hi<strong>hg</strong>way=residential</tt> to <tt
style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:20.125px">highway=residential</tt>.</li>
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<div>The capital S is not technically a typo, but my feeling
is that this case fits the spirit of that. The capital S was
used systematically by some contributors for some time, but
why would anyone object to this simple change in
capitalisation?</div>
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<p>I'd absolutely agree that changing "Source" to "source" is a
"typo fix" in the spirit of that wiki page. Here the original
mapper surely meant to use a normal OSM "source" tag, but
accidentally used a capital S.</p>
<p>It can be difficult sometimes to guess what the original mapper
meant*, but not here - in this case it's absolutely clear and
makes perfect sense to change "Source" to "source" (after checking
for existing "source" tags that might conflict, which turns out
not to be an issue: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1ezI">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1ezI</a> ).</p>
<p>Someone has already mentioned to the original mapper at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/65598267">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/65598267</a> that adding
source tags to every object isn't necessary if all of the objects
in a changeset have the same source. If I was editing in the area
and using multiple sources (usually I'd use a mixture of survey,
whatever imagery seems best, and something for imagery alightment
such as OS OpenData and OSMUK cadastral parcels) I'd probably
remove the "Source/source" tags as I went, or replace it with
something descriptive of the multiple sources used.</p>
<p>Best Regards,</p>
<p>Andy<br>
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<p>* With a DWG hat on I've just partially reverted
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/113316313">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/113316313</a> , which removed
lots of invalid surface values that might actually be useful to
future local mappers, but also did make some likely correct
guesses, like "surface=as" being a typo for "surface=asphalt".
There I've tried to preserve the "good guesses" but undo the "tag
removals" - "surface=g" might be "ground", "grass" or "gravel",
and a mapper with local knowledge might be able to say "because
it's in this area it's obviously...."</p>
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