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

[Lars Ahlzen]

On 08/22/2016 08:02 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 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:
>> [...]
> 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.

+1

The tags Alan originally suggested should be pretty uncontroversial and 
straightforward to remove.

One *could* argue for keeping massgis:way_id for things like...

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

i.e. for helping with conflating updated data from MassGIS. Then again, 
perhaps in practice it doesn't work that well anyway, with lots of roads 
being added, updated, split, joined, etc.

I'm all for performing this cleanup - for all the reasons that Alan 
already mentioned. But, regardless of how it's done (semi-manual 
"piecemeal" or with scripts), given the huge number of individual 
objects this touches we probably have to at least mention this on the 
imports list. I doubt there will be strong objections.

- Lars