[Talk-us-massachusetts] Should we delete source, attribution & massgis:way_id from massgis highway import?

[Greg Troxel]

Jason Woofenden <jason at jasonwoof.com> writes:

>> When highways were imported from the Mass GIS database they included
>> three tags that are of no importance.
>> 
>> * source (both ways & nodes are tagged)
>> * attribution (both ways & nodes are tagged)
>> * massgis:way_id (only the way is tagged)
>
> I think there's more tags that should be removed. Off the top
> of my head:
>
> * width (wildly inaccurate and in the wrong units)
>
> * condition (wildly inaccurate and not kept up to date)
>
> * source:* (eg source:maxspeed)

While I can see your points, I think it's best to bite off small project
and do them, rather than roll lots of things in.  Two scripted edits are
not much harder than one, and getting the uncontroversial one done
brings value while the other ones are still being debated.

For width/condition, I really wonder several things:

  is the current massdot data useful?

  do we want this in OSM, conceptually?

  is there some way to sync, updating if previous data was from massdot,
  and leaving alone if not

  if so, is it worth it?
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