[Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mass-replace outdated water=salt

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

With apologies to those that have already been involved in the
lengthy Slack discussion about instances of this tag in the US...

In almost all of the US cases (a significant number), the salt water
tagging was an error made during an import.  Doing that research to
understand the origin of the salt tagging would reveal that in nearly all
cases (for the US example, specifically), the correct action to make the
data more correct is actually to remove the salt water tagging.  That's one
of the reasons that community discussion is important - by understanding
the origin of how the data came to be wrong, you can chart a superior
course of action - in this case a bulk or targeted removal of the tagging
rather than a conversion.  Each local community has the best understanding
of their weird or quirky data sets and would be in the best position to
recommend the proper course of action for a fix, which may or may not
include a bulk edit.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 12:12 PM Casper Kersten <casperkersten1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> @mike thompson
> > "changing them to salt=yes only adds legitimacy to what is probably
> incorrect data, and therefore should not be done."
>
> Fixing tagging issues seems like a good step towards making the data less
> "wrong" to me. What alternative do you suggest in this case?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Casper
>
>
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