[Tagging] openGeoDB* discardable ?

Illia Marchenko illiamarchenko92 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 15 16:08:00 UTC 2023


Marc_marc <marc_marc at mailo.com>:

> Hello,
>
> the openGeoDB* tags were added during an import in 2008 [1] in europe
> and according to the wiki [2], the osm data maj project is long dead
> and was problematic.
> years later we still have plenty of occurrences of tag cases
> if we had to do it again, current good practice would refuse to flood
> osm with internal tags to an external database (except sometimes an id
> such as wikidata)
> I thus propose to change the status of these tags in discardable
> so that those are not preserved during the edition of an object
> some county, for ex Belgium, have already decided to remove them [3]
>
> notice ?
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
> [1] https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/openGeoDB%3Aloc_id#chronology
> [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenGeoDB
> [3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/81642925


At a minimum, some (openGeoDB:lat=*, openGeoDB:lon=*) tags are completely
useless, and nothing will be lost by discarding them.
Regards,
Illia.
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