[Tagging] Cleaning up

[John Smith]

On 5 May 2010 22:50, Jonas Minnberg <sasq64 at gmail.com> wrote:
> * Remove cycleways parallel to other ways and add a cycleway=track to that
> way instead.

Is there a good reason you want to reduce information?

> * Remove parks created from green areas on the satellite that are not really
> parks (adding a tree_lined=yes tag to intersecting way if appropriate).

Instead of removing them, wouldn't it be better to change the tags to
make them as wooded areas?

> * Remove walkways that are just side walks.

Why do you want to remove information if things are correctly tagged?

> * Align POIs so that shops, pubs etc recognized by a store front are a small
> distance inside it's building.

Is the sat imagery of better quality than the original POI was sourced
from? Or do you need to align the imagery with the POIs?

> * Aligning areas that lie directly next to each other in the real world
> (park next to building with no road in between) so there is no space in
> between (sharing points whenever possible).

You should use relations instead of having ways duplicate nodes,
otherwise it's a pain in the butt for the next person editing to do
anything useful with the ways without splitting them.