[OSM-newbies] Updating info for an old Tiger road

[Mike N]

On 8/30/2014 8:15 PM, Doug Hembry wrote:
> removed as no longer needed? I assume tiger:reviewed=no can be deleted,
> but what about the others? Should a new source= tag be added to reflect
> the review, alongside the tiger:source= tag?

   You may remove reviewed=no after you are confident that the road 
information is now accurate.  Editors will automatically remove unneeded 
tags.  source= should be added to the changeset when possible - that way 
it applies to your edits, and the next editor may not notice or update a 
source= on the way.

>
> highway=residential. But on the ground today, the roads have
> deteriorated into tracks, maintained as fire roads and for recreation.
> The road name has fallen out of use (no road signs, and trail names
> often different from their old road names). How to handle this? Do all
> the old Tiger tags go? Does the name= tag go? It seems a pity to discard
> the old information about what these tracks/roads once were - they are
> pertinent to understanding the historical record of the region, even if
> the renderers don't use such information. Is there some way to modify
> the old tags as no longer current, but leave them in place?

   Update the way information to reflect its current state.  Tiger tags 
are not important for that case: they may all be deleted.  OpenstreetMap 
retains the history of the way, so the current information will not be 
completely discarded in any case.

> Q3: A special case of Q2: In some cases, these old Tiger roads have
> disappeared completely - overgrown and no longer in use, leaving perhaps
> only the outline of a road bed  and an absence of large trees. Should
> all the information about such roads be deleted from OSM? Same concern
> applies as for Q2.

   It will be best to just delete the road - it will be in the history 
record for that region.