[Tagging] type=* tags on trees

[Mike Thompson]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 4:26 PM Casper Kersten <casperkersten1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I already listed the most common replacements in my first message. The
> others will be very similar in nature and I refuse to make a Wiki page for
> 630 tags that just have to be changes once, unless someone can automate
> that process.
>
It has been suggested that the list of proposed translations could be
placed in a spreadsheet  and stored on someplace like Github with a link
from your mechanical edit wiki page to the spreadsheet.  That seems
reasonable and alleviates the prospect of a large table on your mechanical
edit wiki page.

It also has been suggested that you could confine your mechanical edit to
just the several dozen most numerous or important cases.  You would then
have less documentation to create.


> More interestingly, Mateusz said in Discord that there could be
> conflicting tags on objects, such as type=broadleaved +
> leaf_type=needleleaved. What shall I do with cases like that?
>
> a) Look at the history for the object, contact the mappers that entered
the conflicting information and see if they can shed any light on the
subject.
b) Zoom to the object in question
c) Open available satellite/aerial imagery
d) If you can make a determination from the imagery, change the tags
accordingly,
e) If you can't make a determination from the imagery, leave as is or add a
fixme=* tag - If there is conflicting information, don't guess as to which
might be correct, it adds no value to the database.
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