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<div>Note that with so such rarely used key a manual edit without any mass editing<br></div><div>or imports can generate spikes on such graph.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Adding 100 or 300 ways in one manual edit is not unusual or suspicious. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Mar 3, 2021, 18:47 by bert.araali.afritastic@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana">Taginfo link for chronology: <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/road#chronology" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/road#chronology</a></span><br></p><div class="">On 03/03/2021 20:33, Bert -Araali- Van
Opstal wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana">Just the key "road=*", search for road in
Taginfo tab KEY.<br> In Taginfo I searched for the key, got a long list with all
kinds of keys containing the word "road", then selected just
"road" from the list returned by taginfo.</span></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana">If you go to chronology tab you see the
spikes very clearly.</span><br></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana">Greetings,</span><br></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana">Bert Araali</span><br></p><div class="">On 03/03/2021 20:23, Pierre Béland
wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family:
verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">Hi Bert,<br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">please, give us more
details about the tags you spotted in taginfo as not
valid, not using the highway key.<br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">From there, it should be
easy for us to propose an Overpass query.<br></div><div><br></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);"><b><i> <br> <span class="font" style="font-family:garamond,
new york, times, serif">Pierre </span></i></b></span></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="" id="ydp7c27424fyahoo_quoted_5105613417"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div>Le mercredi 3 mars 2021 12 h 18 min 37 s UTC−5, Bert
-Araali- Van Opstal <a href="mailto:bert.araali.afritastic@gmail.com" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><bert.araali.afritastic@gmail.com></a> a écrit :<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div id="ydp7c27424fyiv4323715177"><div><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana">Dear all,</span><br></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana">I was recently working on some
local proposals and, through taginfo, saw some
recent spikes in the use of the non approved and
discouraged use of the road key (should be
highway).<br> The spikes, due to their amount and short
time-frame in which they appear seem to be
indicating unnoticed mass or automated edits.<br> Do they need closer attention / investigation and
action to revert ?</span></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana">1. Jan 2017 - spike of +-500,
seems to be reverted by +-300 by Mar 2017<br> 2. Mar 2019 - spike of +-400, not reverted<br> 3. Sep/Okt 2020 to Feb 2021 - spike of +-800, not
reverted and continuing at a worrying rate</span></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana">These 3 spikes together make
up 3/4 of the total use cases of the road key.</span><br></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana">Would appreciate some help
with taginfo / overpass trubo / other tools to get
more insight on the phenomena.</span><br></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana">Greetings,</span><br></p><p><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana">Bert Araali</span><br></p><p><br></p></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div> talk mailing list<br></div><div> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br></div><div> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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