[Talk-us-massachusetts] automated edits and massgis tags

[Greg Troxel]

Recently on talk-us, someone asked about our beloved massgis:* tags:

  https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2017-December/079952.html

He's not local (Europe), and I replied and also talked to him off list.
I pointed out that this is a MA thing only, and cautioned than any
automated edit would need review by this list.  He's done this sort of
edit in Poland, to clean things up.  I said I'd ask.

So, I wonder how people feel about dropping a bunch of massgis:* tags?
I think they are there because

  everything was translated

  we had some notion of foreign keys for later matching, but it seems
  now people think you need full-blown conflation/matching anyway

I think eventually we'll want to look at the layers we have imported and
do some maintenance.   But I don't think this really interferes with
this.  On the other hand I could see the point that churn is bad and
these tags don't really hurt.

So, I would like to hear opinions on two questions:

  If it were done right, do you think it would be good to drop massgis:*
  tags, or some defined subset of them?

  Do you think you'd like to do it yourself?  Do you think it's ok for
  one of us locals to do it?  Do you think it's ok for a longstanding
  OSM contributor from .EU to do it?

  anything else?
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