[Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

[Anthony]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Alan Mintz
<Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net> wrote:
> A couple of different users have recently been removing all the tiger:*=*
> tags from roads in the process of other edits to them.

I'm among them.  Mostly because they are not documented in the wiki.

> However, they also contain the original
> breakdown of the prefix, root, and suffix before they got combined into the
> name and then expanded by the balrog-kun bot - information which will be
> useful in the majority of cases if we ever get back to
> splitting/standardizing.

If you want to do that, just go back to the original database.

> AFAIK, we haven't (yet) agreed that these tags should be removed, right?

Dunno.