[Tagging] proposed bot edit was: Re: history discardable ?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

I support automatic edit removing all values starting from 
"Retrieved from" and using key history as useless remains.

I will make such edits, unless there is a clear opposition
(note that manual removal of this tags is also acceptable and
also desirable and also will change last edit date of this objects)

It would make cleanup of remaining values easier, most of them appear
to be mistagging of historic tag.

Note that making this tag discardable is not ideal
- there are values such as https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/history=city_gate
- tag value is not some bizarre name like osmarender:nameDirection but something
where there is a real risk of people actually adding it deliberately

Feb 11, 2021, 16:59 by letopographefou at gmail.com:

> 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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>   Message original  
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> De: marc_marc at mailo.com
> Envoyé: 11 février 2021 8:59 AM
> À: tagging at openstreetmap.org
> Répondre à: tagging at openstreetmap.org
> Objet: [Tagging] history discardable ?
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>
> 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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