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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    I have started the job that removes the unnecessary TIGER node tags 
(and removes the nodes themselves should no tags remain and the nodes be 
unused - this applies only to a small number of nodes).

As discussed here, we'll remove "tiger_tlid", "tiger:upload_uuid" (and 
the misspelled variant "tiger:upload_uid"), "tiger:county", and 
"tiger:source". We will also remove "source" but only if one of the 
other tags is present AND the content of "source" refers to TIGER.

You can see which area is currently being processed, and what has 
already been done:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/woodpeck_fixbot/edits

The job will generally work in county-sized chunks, but don't expect 
that once it has visited a county it's done with it - many counties will 
have to be visited multiple times because they have so many nodes. Also, 
it can always happen that some edits fail during the first run, and 
these left-over nodes will then be picked up later.

The job does not proceed evenly but instead jumps randomly across the 
US, doing one county here then one county there. This is because I want 
to avoid that someone who e.g. regularly processes all changes in 
California suddenly has millions of changes in a few days - I'd rather 
spread things out a bit to soften the impact for everyone.

I'll closely monitor the job but if any of you should notice something 
strange, please do tell me.

Initial results are a bit disappointing speed-wise, I am currently not 
sure if we'll make the November target but we'll see.

I'll keep you posted on major developments, milestones, etc.

Bye
Frederik

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