[Talk-us] Time to retire ref= on ways?

[Paul Johnson]

Chris Hunter wrote:

> Definitely a good idea!  My only concern would be to make sure the way is correctly included in the route relationship(s) before deleting the ref=* tags. 

A valid concern, and one in which I believe human intervention is
required.

> Maybe a bot could do this?

I'd prefer human intervention wherever possible.  Forgive me for
being gunshy after the low quality of the bot edits made during the
GNIS and TIGER imports.