[OSM-talk-ie] error correction of data in downloaded ireland-northern-ireland.osm.pbf

[Rory McCann]

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On 12/05/15 18:33, Killian Driscoll wrote:
> I downloaded the ireland-northern-ireland.osm.pbf and noted some
> errors, e.g. in polygon layer column "place" one row of 'locality
> is misspelt  as 'lcoality'. What should I do for this? Go to the
> instance on osm online and edit?

That sounds like a simple typo. You should probably just change the
tag on OSM.

If it doesn't look like a typo, but you disagree with the tag, then
that's a more complicated matter. Wiki, mailing list, tag info, etc
are the way to research it.

> Also, if I run a filter in QGIS: "natural" = 'water' AND "water" IS
> NULL it returns 7574 rows, including major lakes such as Lough
> Neagh, Gill, Conn etc. Does this mean that these are errors, i.e.
> that the record is incomplete and the column 'water' hasn't been
> filled in correctly? Or am I missing something here?

Nothing is "wrong". OSM is an evolving project, and will never be
"100% finished". Initially lakes were tagged with just natural=water.
Eventually we started using water=lake for more fine grained detail.
But not everything has been changed. Feel free to add the water=lake
tag to those lakes, if you'd like.

Hope that helps,

Rory
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