<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Verdana;">If there is a consensus to make the change - automated or semi-automated - it would be possible to mitigate this risk by adding something like-<br></div><ul><li style="font-family:Verdana;">was:operator=Western Power Distribution (saying it used to be WPD)<br></li><li style="font-family:Verdana;">old_operator=Western Power Distribution (saying it used to be WPD)</li><li style="font-family:Verdana;">operator:signed=Western Power Distribution (saying that the sign still says WPD)<br></li></ul><div style="font-family:Verdana;">That would discourage people from changing it back.<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div id="sig98312048"><div class="signature">---<br></div><div class="signature"><a href="https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?spiregrain">https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?spiregrain</a><br></div><div class="signature"><a href="mailto:spiregrain_osm@ksglp.org.uk">spiregrain_osm@ksglp.org.uk</a><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div>On Thu, 4 Aug 2022, at 5:20 PM, Tony Shield wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><p>I guess it will take Western Power Distribution years to change
the labels on all of their equipment, so if we change all of them
in one hit it doesn't map what's on the ground and I suspect
people will change it back. So I would be inclined to leave them
until they are verified on the ground as having changed.<br></p><p>Tony<br></p><div class="qt-moz-cite-prefix">On 04/08/2022 16:48, Jez Nicholson
wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CALBgsih9jr+yqkQwCVObhAxS5dtDG4oArx6a9TNrgwDCEVw-tA@mail.gmail.com"><div dir="ltr">before anyone asks, that's 10,610 OSM objects <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/tags/operator=Western%20Power%20Distribution" class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/tags/operator=Western%20Power%20Distribution</a><br></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 2:17 PM
Andy Mabbett <<a href="mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk" class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext">andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk</a>>
wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="qt-gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:1px;padding-left:1ex;"><div>Western
Power Distribution - <a href="https://www.westernpower.co.uk/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.westernpower.co.uk/</a> - have<br></div><div> announced that their name will change, following acquisition
by<br></div><div> National Grid.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Should we plan an automated change for the operator: tag on
their<br></div><div> substations and other infrastructure?<br></div><div> <br></div><div> -- <br></div><div> Andy Mabbett<br></div><div> @pigsonthewing<br></div><div> <a href="http://pigsonthewing.org.uk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext">http://pigsonthewing.org.uk</a><br></div><div> <br></div><div> _______________________________________________<br></div><div> Talk-GB mailing list<br></div><div> <a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank" class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br></div><div> <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><pre class="qt-moz-quote-pre">_______________________________________________
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