<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace" size="4"><span><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:19.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">When highways were imported from the Mass GIS database they included three tags that are of no importance.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">source (both ways & nodes are tagged)</span><br></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">attribution </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">(both ways & nodes are tagged)</span><br></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">massgis:way_id (only the way is tagged)</span><br></li></ul><p></p></span><span><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:19.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">These artifact tags are a burden</span></font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><ul><li><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I</span><span style="line-height:19.2px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">ncreasing the size of the database.</span><br></li><li><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:19.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Increase the length of the JOSM "Tag/Membership" window enough to require the user to frequently scroll or re-size the window.</span></font><br></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">The massgis:way_id adds an additional step when combining road segments. (id's must be deleted or combined)</span><br></li></ul><p></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="line-height:19.2px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The data should only be deleted for users:</span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">"</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">MassGIS Import" </span><span style="line-height:19.2px;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">MassGIS Import is the user id for the original import.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">"NE2" (inactive since 2013)</span><br></li></ul><p></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">NE2 Five years ago edited 4,150 ways. The changeset comments were:</span><br></p></span></font><h4 style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:500;word-wrap:break-word"><ul><li><font face="monospace, monospace" size="4">correct maxspeed tags from MassGIS import to use mph rather than km/h<br></font></li><li><font face="monospace, monospace" size="4">replace bogus names like "Unnamed Road" with noname=yes<br></font></li></ul></h4><div><font face="monospace, monospace" size="4">This preserves the id of the person who did the most recent edit as seen in edit history (JOSM Ctrl-H)</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace" size="4">I suggest these updates be preformed by the user:"MassGIS Import" if someone has the password.</font></div><div><ul><li><font face="monospace, monospace" size="4">They could be preformed by someone clever with scripts.<br></font></li><li><font face="monospace, monospace" size="4">They could be done peace-meal county by county or town by town as follows<br></font></li></ul></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace" size="4"><br></font></div><span><font face="monospace, monospace" size="4">The Peace-meal Process<br><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">In overpass-turbo using the wizard query. </span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">(user:"MassGIS Import" or user:NE2) and type:way and highway=residential in "Massachusetts"</span><br></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Select Export</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Select JOSM</span><br></li></ul><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">In JOSM </span><p></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Selection Menu - Select All</span><br></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Tags/Membership window, delete tags source, attribution & massgis:way_id</span><br></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Selection Menu - Select All Way Nodes </span><br></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Tags/Membership window, delete Keys source, attribution</span><br></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">File menu - Upload Data</span><br></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Upload Window "Provide brief comment...." insert "Deleting legacy massgis tags from original imported data.</span><br></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Source Window "Turbo-Overpass query (user:"MassGIS Import"<span style="line-height:21.6px"> or user:NE2)</span> and type:way and highway=residential in "Massachusetts"</span><br></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:normal;background-color:transparent">Upload</span><br></li></ul><p></p><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">I volunteer to do the peace-meal if there are no script writers with time available.</span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Current users could change the overpass query and update their own </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">data thus retaining their edit history.</span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Please comment.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">What have I overlooked? </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Was NE2 the only person making a mass edit?</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Alan</span></div></font></span></div><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font face="monospace, monospace" size="4">51 Hancock St<br>Bedford MA 10730<br><a href="tel:339-545-1737" value="+13395451737" target="_blank">339-545-1737</a> mobile</font><br><div style="padding:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;color:black;font-size:10px;text-align:left;line-height:130%"></div><div style="padding:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;color:black;font-size:10px;text-align:left;line-height:130%"></div><div style="padding:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;color:black;font-size:10px;text-align:left;line-height:130%"></div><div style="padding:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;color:black;font-size:10px;text-align:left;line-height:130%"></div><div style="padding:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;color:black;font-size:10px;text-align:left;line-height:130%"></div><div style="padding:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;color:black;font-size:10px;text-align:left;line-height:130%"></div><div style="padding:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;color:black;font-size:10px;text-align:left;line-height:130%"></div><div style="padding:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;color:black;font-size:10px;text-align:left;line-height:130%"></div><div style="padding:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;color:black;font-size:10px;text-align:left;line-height:130%"></div></div></div>
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