[Tagging] history discardable ?

[Topographe Fou]

I agree it is a changeset tag, not a feature tag.

But if a tag, whatever it is, shall disappear automatically on edit then it is easier and quicker to massively remove it once. I don't see the benefit of waiting 20 years to maybe one day have removed all of them. Asking tools to manage this exception is a loss of energy from my point of view.

I agree for such mass edit removal if consensus is reached.

LeTopographeFou


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De: marc_marc at mailo.com
Envoyé: 11 février 2021 8:59 AM
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Objet: [Tagging] history discardable ?


Hello,

a long time ago, some tools add history=* to describe how a revert was done.
the current method is a changeset tag, for example
created_by=reverter_plugin;JOSM

however there are still 42000 occurrences in the database and this
number increases every time someone split a way.
e.g. with https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8105642 tag added in 2008,
but put on any splited way from it
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/508259115/history
besides the uselessness of this information as a not-a-changeset tag,
it leads to absurd situations with "recovered from version 4 on objects
starting at version 1".
I therefore propose to declare this tag discardable so that this tag
disappears during a modification instead of being propagated.
if it makes consensus, I will open the tickets josm, id, ...

What do you think?

Regards,
Marc



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