[Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

[Alan Millar]

On Jul 29, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Anthony wrote:
> In any case, I disagree that it's better to leave information you know
> to be wrong in rather than deleting it.  Perhaps that's our
> fundamental disagreement.

For my part in the conversation, I *agree* with you that people  
should delete (or fix when possible) information that they know is  
wrong.

But that is not the (or my) fundamental disagreement.  My  
disagreement is on the deletion of *all* tiger: tags, because you  
don't see a need for them or you don't like the namespace or they  
don't fit your view of what/where/how they should be documented.

> As for tiger:name_base, tiger:name_type, etc., if there's someone
> that's using that information, we definitely should take it out of the
> tiger namespace.  I'd be happy to move it from tiger:name_base=* to
> name_base=* instead of deleting it, if someone is using it and would
> take 5 minutes to put something up on the wiki announcing it.  If it's
> useful, then it's useful for non-tiger ways as well as tiger ways.


Yes, it is useful for non-tiger ways as well.  And I will bet it will  
be useful for other countries besides the U.S. also.

I haven't seen a conclusion on what people want to see in the naming  
convention (see for example the thread at http:// 
lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2010-April/003138.html).

Just because the conversation is ongoing, that doesn't mean you need  
to delete the data in the meantime.

- Alan