[Talk-us] Deletion of unnecessary TIGER node tags will commence this week-end

[Alan Mintz]

At 2009-08-06 12:59, Alan Mintz wrote:
>I wanted to mention it quickly before reading the discussion, which I will
>do now, and post back if there is any change.

I guess I expected it to take longer than it did :)



>At 2009-08-06 12:34, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> >...
> >The process will drop "source", "tiger:tlid", "tiger:upload_uuid" and
> >"tiger:county" from all nodes which have at least one of the three
> >"tiger" tags.
>
>This presents a problem (though not insurmountable) for edits I have made
>in my area. I have generally left tiger:* tags in place when adding tags to
>a node. These include railroad crossings, memorial street naming signs,
>gates, and addresses. In addition to naming or other tags, I add
>source_ref=[my photo #]
>and
>source=survey;image{;usgs_imagery;|yahoo_imagry;}{;local_government|;FRA|;CPUC}. 
>
>I don't want to lose these source tags.


There may also be occasions where I tagged a non-road node (like a POI or 
something) with a source tag, but not a source_ref, like where I confirmed 
it with a government source instead of a personal survey.

How about this: If a node has either a name or source_ref tag, only remove 
the tiger:* tags and leave the source tag alone.

I originally would have objected to the removal of the tiger:tlid info 
because I was working on a way to fix the alignment of these against the 
newer TIGER data, which seems to be very accurate in my area now, but as 
Dave and I found, there was a bug that made this impossible (or at least 
very difficult and incomplete), so I guess I'm all for the ultimate 
performance improvement.

--
Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>