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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Mar 23, 2019, 9:59 AM by simon@poole.ch:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><p>While there's a certain amount of unnecessary database bloat
caused by creating a new version, the real objection is that these
tags tend to survive in areas with low maintenance, aka low
amounts of gardening. Producing false updates (aka no real
content) just obscures that fact and makes it more difficult to
determine which areas need to be revisted.<br></p></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">It seems to me as not a real problem. There are many, many different indicators of such places<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">and automatic edits are suitable to remove only very small part of them.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I am pretty sure that after making all possible automatic edits it would be still easy to locate<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">such abandoned regions and human editing time could be used for things more useful than<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">manual removal of pointless tag polluting tag lists.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">See for example <a href="http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/">http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">(depending on location one may prefer different reports)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">We have 800+ objects with source="Google Maps" (yes, it is on my todo list, yes I notified <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">DWG long time ago).<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">See <a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Hge">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Hge</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">The bottleneck is not "we will run out of things to fix" or "we will run out of easy to find places<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">to repair", the bottleneck is time of mappers.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">TIGER mess alone in USA is enough for decades or years of remapping, HOT low quality <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">mapping in Africa or Haiti has massive amount of easy to find fixable data,<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">there are millions of instances of tags that has no reason to be present.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I see no point in wasting my time during normal editing on manual tag removal of keys<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">or tags that never, ever can be worth keeping and I would prefer to do it automatically.<br></div> </body>
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