[Imports] Mass fixing street names in Queensland Australia

[Serge Wroclawski]

Benjamin,

Doing mass tagging or mass renaming is quite a difficult process in
OSM. I did a more modest mass tagging change last year, renaming
millions of road names in the US from "Rd" to "Road", and that process
took almost six months of discussion and debate before it was
approved, and what was eventually approved was a far more modest
proposal than I'd hoped.

To do the kind of work that you're proposing in an automated way would
require a lot of analysis and work generally. If you're talking about
millions of roads, in a process that is very testable and highly
automatable, then I suggest you continue down this road, but use the
import community to test your code and process.

If not, then I suggest a more modest process of using either the OSM
Tasking Manager[1], or Maproulette to manage this process.

- Serge


[1] The official name for the tasking manager is the OSM Tasking
Manager, not the HOT Tasking Manager. The HOT Tasking Manager is the
instance of the OSM Tasking Manager that exists for HOT tasks (of
which this would not be one).