<div dir="auto">My view is probably along the lines of as OSM matures using more standardized tags will make it easier to extract meaningful data from OSM mapping.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Having said that we still need the flexibility to use new tags.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That Building=building should be replaced by building=yes is fairly obvious some other tag replacements may not be.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheerio John</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, 4:44 pm James, <<a href="mailto:james2432@gmail.com">james2432@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I don't see a problem with this as the major concerns: big edit boundaries, what does it affect? are taken care of by documentation<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">if building=building is not or was not a wiki approved way of tagging, this seems more on the side of linting osm tags than it does a "mass blind edit"/import</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jun 8, 2018, 1:22 PM Mateusz Konieczny, <<a href="mailto:matkoniecz@tutanota.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">matkoniecz@tutanota.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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building=yes is a standard way to mark building without specifying its<br>type. Editors wishing to specify building type would (directly or<br>indirectly, for example using StreetComplete) look through buildings<br>tagged as building=yes.<br><br>building=building is an unexpected way to mark building without<br>specifying its type and therefore retagging this duplicate to<br>building=yes would improve tagging without any information loss.<br><br>It would also (as an useful byproduct) remove this tag from popular<br>values at <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/building#values" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/building#values</a> and<br>ensure that it will not become proposed as a valid value by an iD<br>editor (at this moment threshold for building value is 14514 uses).<br><br>Between 4000 and 5000 objects are expected to be edited. See<br><a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/building=building#map" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/building=building#map</a> for a<br>geographic distribution.<br><br>Changeset would be split into small areas to avoid continent-sized<br>bounding boxes. As this tag is on buildings it is not expected that any<br>object will force bounding box to be extremely large.<br><br>For documentation page see<br><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/moving_building%3Dbuilding_to_building%3Dyes" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/moving_building%3Dbuilding_to_building%3Dyes</a><br>For documentation of my previous proposals (including both proposals<br>that failed to be approved and approved ones) see<br><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account</a><br><br> </div>
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