As a general concept this is bad but in many cases a very good idea. many tiger roads are completely wrong and there is absolute no value to keep any of the tags. if a mapper does a significant change and is essentially just keeping some nodes and the name tag then it's better to remove any reference to a bad source.<div>
<br></div><div>a lot of tags for tiger uploads have no benefit and can be removed too without loosing any valuable info. examples are</div><div>tiger:source</div><div>tiger:upload_uuid</div><div>and probably also</div><div>
tiger:separated</div><div>tiger:county, with county borders available this is no longer useful<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Alan Mintz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Alan_Mintz%2BOSM@earthlink.net">Alan_Mintz+OSM@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">A couple of different users have recently been removing all the tiger:*=* tags from roads in the process of other edits to them.<br>
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One responded that it was because they were sometimes wrong (which is, of course, true, for those roads that we've corrected) and that they did not seem to provide any useful data. 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.<br>
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AFAIK, we haven't (yet) agreed that these tags should be removed, right?<br><font color="#888888">
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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM@Earthlink.net><br>
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