[Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

[Dave Hansen]

On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 18:44 -0400, Anthony wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Alan Mintz
> <Alan_Mintz+OSM 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.
> 
> I'm among them.  Mostly because they are not documented in the wiki.

Heh.  OK, let's go deleting all of the tags that don't show up in the
wiki.  That should pretty significantly reduce the size of the
database. :)

> > 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.
> 
> If you want to do that, just go back to the original database.

Sometimes, since people removed things and moved them around, it's very
difficult to _go_ back to the original database.  Every one of these
tags make that more feasible.

> > AFAIK, we haven't (yet) agreed that these tags should be removed, right?
> 
> Dunno.

Please keep them.  They're not hurting anything.  


-- Dave