[OSM-dev] Deleting TIGER node tags

[Shaun McDonald]

On 22 Jul 2009, at 10:39, Marc Schütz wrote:

>>> what about "created" tags? they are pretty much useless too.
>>> 2G difference on the uncompressed planet file.
>>
>> Now that the editors are ignoring the created_by tag when creating  
>> and
>> changing objects, the tag will slowly decrease over time. There is no
>> point in creating a huge number of changesets and downstream activity
>> for that, when it will naturally occur without any manual editing by
>> the user.
>
> Should the editors be changed to automatically remove created_by? Or  
> maybe just well-known values like /JOSM.*/, /Potlatch.*/?
>

The created by tag should now be on the changeset, i.e. one level up.
JOSM recently (1735 & 1720) implemented a change where all the  
created_by tags are dropped. That was the original intention when  
changesets were introduced.

You can use the history to get the old versions of the created_by tag  
prior to the changeset introduction.

Shaun

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