[Talk-us-massachusetts] Let's delete MA imported massgis: attributes

[Lars Ahlzen]

On 5/6/2017 7:29 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Lars Ahlzen <lars at ahlzen.com> writes:
>
>> Greg brings up a good point, though, that we may want to fix a few
>> obvious issues from the import while we still can. The width is a good
>> example (I think we just need to add ft as the unit where it has been
>> untouched) but there are probably other examples where we need to use
>> the massgis tags.
> I don't follow "use massgis".  We should (says I who do not have spare
> time to do it) be taking new data from massgis/massdot, doing road
> matching, seeing if the right mapping of attributes differs, and if the
> original attributes have not been edited by humans, and if so updating.
> I don't see how that relates  to any of the massgis tags to be deleted

I was mostly thinking about cases of tags that were mistranslated during 
the import. Sure, we could try to try match OSM objects to fresh MassGIS 
data instead of looking at the existing massgis: tags, but that sounds 
orders of magnitude more difficult. And this is not necessarily just for 
roads, but areas (natural, landuse etc) as well.

Admittedly, I don't have any good examples of such issues to be fixed, 
so it's possible that I'm just being unnecessarily cautious.

- Lars