[Imports-us] Automated Edit Proposal, remove area=yes, and fix broken source tag in US Massachusetts
Greg Troxel
gdt at ir.bbn.com
Tue Aug 13 13:02:10 UTC 2013
I am inclined to say you should go ahead with this. It is incremental
progress and I don't see any harm.
The only arguments I can think of against them are the
changesets that don't fix serious problems take resources
- I don't think this sort of change will stress anything
per-object source tags are now bad practice
- true, but the old import had them, and it's wrong. So I think it's
better to fix them. An alternative would be to drop the source tag
in this edit and put the metadata only in the changeset tag, adding
a note that the source in the changeset applies to version 1 also.
Making changes to imported data makes later edits harder
- This changeset has bot=yes, and the number of large automated
changes are small. So if one is trying to write a "has this object
been touched by a human since it was imported" predicate to avoid
updating human-edited objects, it doesn't really make it much
harder. And the address import should still add addresses if
someone fixed the geometry; the point is to respect hand mapper's
work, not to competely refrain from touching edited objects.
Wait until importing addressing data
- It's not clear when/if that will happen (presuambly licensing will
be ok, but there have been some hints that it might not be). In
general I think it's better to do separate things separately, both
from the "clean changeset" notion in revision control and to avoid
turning something simple into a project that's too big to
accomplish.
(For what it's worth I consider myself a local in the area of the
2008/2009 building import, working in one of those buildings and having
friends and relatives in others. So not really relevant to the cleanup,
but the data is of high quality - the only things I've wanted to fix are
buildings that have been torn down since the import and a bit of new
construction.)
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