[Talk-ca] Batch transformation from rcn_ref=1 to Route

[alouette955 at gmail.com]

Hi,

I am new in OSM world ... my project is to develop and improve the OpenCycleMap for the province of Quebec.

I recently acquired the skills to edit tags for Cycleways and I am now confortable.

Now for my problem...

I realise that a lot of contributors have develop the Regional Cycling Network for “La route verte” (the provincial cycling route) but with lack of uniformity. Some have use tags(rcn=yes and rcn_ref=x) for each way and other have use the “add to a route” feature to update a global route. Route seem to be a better idea..

What I want to do is transform all tracks to the “add to route” technique. Is there a tool to make batchs modification to a lot of object on OSM? What I think about is:

1- Find all object in Quebec only (rcn_ref=1 could exist elsewhere in the world) that have the tag rcn_ref=1
2- Create the relation for this object with “La route verte 1” (same as if we have use add to a route feature)
3- Delete tags rcn=yes and rcn_ref=1 from theses objects because it became obsolete

Doing that to each route will standardize almost all the network in one operation but doing this by hand can take months.

Is there a tool or some readings that can help me with this project?

Or is there OSM meeting near Montreal where I can have that kind of discussions.

Thanks,

As you can read english is not my mother tongue ... please forgive errors but I am sure that you known what I am searching for.
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