<div dir="auto">I have two concerns about separate tags and they come from my validation experience with HOT mappers.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The first is duplicate buildings. When faced with 50 duplicate buildings in a village if I'm feeling good I'll use the to do list to look at each pair and delete the one that is the one that least matches the building outline. I must confess I do not try to contact the mapper who mapped last time. If I or someone like me deletes the outline with the additional add tags on it the information will be lost.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I note Blake was kind enough to delete some 500 duplicate buildings very recently very quickly. He may not have had a changeset discussion on each one.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The other concern is the use of copying buildings by HOT mappers. It is purely a suspicion of mine but I often see a cluster of buildings of exactly the same size when the underlying buildings are different sizes. Copy a building with an addr: address code and all the copies will have the same address.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Something else to check when validating and we know there aren't enough validators already. Also its very difficult and time consuming to check when validating and few validators like validating buildings.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Same topic how do you protect against vandalism? Someone deliberately changing the address codes? Vandalism shouldn't happen but adding the codes separately adds a vulnerability.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Would someone who imported the codes please address my concerns.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks John</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, 7:25 pm Martin Koppenhoefer, <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> On 10. Aug 2018, at 22:06, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM <<a href="mailto:blake.girardot@hotosm.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">blake.girardot@hotosm.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> In the short term, putting a few thousand plus-codes in as addresses,<br>
> while the local community tries them out. Who know if they work for<br>
> local folks, but just jamming a few thousand in will allow all the<br>
> stake holders to trial these codes. Print maps, put signs on<br>
> buildings, communicate with each other using them.<br>
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you can use plus codes NOW. It is already working. No need to add coordinates in tags. <br>
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Cheers,<br>
Martin <br>
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