[Tagging] Proposal to change key:man_made to key:human_made
Dave F
davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com
Mon Oct 19 13:11:08 UTC 2020
That in a project to create an up to date map, there are people involved
who get upset over things changing is, indeed, weird.
DaveF
On 19/10/2020 13:58, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
> Yes, latest update date can be a hint
> but treating it is as an argument to avoid
> making an edit is really weird to me.
>
> 19 paź 2020, 14:51 od tagging at openstreetmap.org:
>
> I'm in no way supporting the proposal, but this argument of 'it'll
> make the entities look fully up to date" is illogical. If taken to
> it's conclusion, nothing will ever be update again.
>
> It's false to think that just because an entity was amended
> yesterday, it means it's up to date:
> If a typo in a road's name is amended, but the road is left
> incorrectly tagged as 'tertiary' instead of 'primary' it's not up
> to date.
>
> Likewise an entity previously amended 10 years ago doesn't mean
> it's inaccurate.
>
> DaveF
>
>
>
> On 18/10/2020 22:04, Oliver Simmons wrote:
>> Doing this would make over 3M objects have their date updated to
>> the present, when the last meaningful change may have been over 5
>> years ago.
>> It creates the illusion of data being up-to-date when all that
>> was changed was a tag key.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 18 Oct 2020, 22:02 Graeme Fitzpatrick,
>> <graemefitz1 at gmail.com <mailto:graemefitz1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 20:39, Rory McCann
>> <rory at technomancy.org <mailto:rory at technomancy.org>> wrote:
>>
>> *definitely* not something one does auomatically.
>>
>>
>> But would it be so impossible? (Not suggesting that it should
>> actually be done!)
>>
>> Couldn't a bot be set to simply find all cases of man_made=,
>> regardless of what it is, & change them to human_made=,
>> similar to using Find & Replace in a Word document?
>>
>> & no, as you can see, I don't understand the technicalities
>> behind it all, so please be gentle with explaining that I'm
>> an idiot! :-)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Graeme
>>
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