[Tagging] JOSM preset with strange tag values

[Jo]

That inertia of obsoleted legacy has everything to do with the fact we
discourage mechanical edits. If somebody were to fix all those
building=entrance to become entrance=main on nodes, their changesets would
probably be reverted. So why even bother? It's more fun to map new stuff
than to fix stuff that nobody sees anyway...

Polyglot



2016-03-05 7:55 GMT+01:00 Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Because something has been in existence does not mean it cannot ever be
> > changed!
> > Consider the power sub station ... that was gradually changed to a new
> > tagging scheme.
>
> But it can take years :-(,
>
> 1/4 of the sub_station/substation tags are still sub_station: [1]
>
> Another obsolete tag that is still is "in use" is building=entrance,
> see [2]  still over 40.000 places usign a tag that has been obsoleted
> over 4 years ago.(*)
> Legacy tags are hard to get rid of.
>
> m.
>
>
> [1]
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/power=sub_station/power=substation
> [2] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/building=entrance/entrance
>
> (*) I think it's over 4 years, the wiki page mentions "overtaken in 2012".
>
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