[Tagging] [OSM-talk] Mass-replace outdated water=salt

[Mike Thompson]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 10:12 AM 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?
>
No, it simply makes bad data appear more legitimate because it will have
been recently edited, and because it will now pass more validation checks.
I would suggest simply removing water=salt in those cases where the object
has not been edited since the import, and where the object is not known to
be a salt body of water or waterway.  One could also add
water=lake/pond/etc. as appropriate.

Although we can't assume that this list is exhaustive[0], there are
probably very few inland bodies of water in the US that are salty.

Mike
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Saline_lakes_of_the_United_States
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