[Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

[Apollinaris Schoell]

As a general concept this is bad but in many cases a very good idea. many
tiger roads are completely wrong and there is absolute no value to keep any
of the tags. if a mapper does a significant change and is essentially just
keeping some nodes and the name tag then it's better to remove any reference
to a bad source.

a lot of tags for tiger uploads have no benefit and can be removed too
without loosing any valuable info. examples are
tiger:source
tiger:upload_uuid
and probably also
tiger:separated
tiger:county, with county borders available this is no longer useful



On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Alan Mintz
<Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net<Alan_Mintz%2BOSM at earthlink.net>
> wrote:

> A couple of different users have recently been removing all the tiger:*=*
> tags from roads in the process of other edits to them.
>
> One responded that it was because they were sometimes wrong (which is, of
> course, true, for those roads that we've corrected) and that they did not
> seem to provide any useful data. However, they also contain the original
> breakdown of the prefix, root, and suffix before they got combined into the
> name and then expanded by the balrog-kun bot - information which will be
> useful in the majority of cases if we ever get back to
> splitting/standardizing.
>
> AFAIK, we haven't (yet) agreed that these tags should be removed, right?
>
> --
> Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>
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