[Talk-GB] traffic calming

[Chris Hill]

On 22/11/15 19:06, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> >There has been a discussion on the tagging mailing list triggered by
> >Gerd Petermann having made a mechanical edit to some traffic calming
> >features.
>
> Thanks Chris,
>
> To summarise for those who don't want to get stuck in the tagging
> mailing list, Gerd spotted that traffic calming (speed bumps, etc) was
> tagged in different ways:
>
> 1. highway=traffic_calming
> 2. highway=traffic_calming + traffic_calming=*
> 3. traffic_calming=*
>
> It looks like highway=traffic_calming (which was only used ~1000 times
> vs traffic_calming=*'s ~200,000 times) has never been a suggested tag
> on the wiki. As such Gerd made the following changes to the three
> cases above:
>
> 1. Replaced with traffic_calming=yes
> 2. Keep just traffic_calming=*
> 3. No change
>
> The edit included a review of all nodes and extra detail was added on
> a case by case basis if required (e.g. crossing details is it is also
> a pedestrian crossing).
>
> Quite frankly I don't really care. The tag was hardly used so if Gerd
> wants to get rid of it completely and has time to do this then fine by
> me. On the flip side the tag is not incorrect (just not documented or
> supported by many people) so why waste time to remove it. Given that
> Gerd took the time to manually review each one before changing it and
> made improvements in some cases, I would have been quite happy to let
> this slide - we have bigger issues to be discussing.
>
> Question: Is the discussion of this more wasteful (time) and harmful
> (negative impression of the community) than the original edit?

Gerd did the work you describe but went ahead with an almost nation-wide
mechanical edit without any prior discussion or description. That's why
I asked him to revert it. Mechanical edits need to be discussed. He then
indicated that he would discuss the tags on tagging@ - indeed he
suggested leaving his edit and discussing it on tagging at . I wanted also
to make it clear that tagging@ is not the best place to discuss
mechanical edits - a lot of people avoid tagging@ to maintain the will
to live.

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Cheers, Chris (chillly)