[Talk-us] Drop the tiger:reviewed tag from roads

[Mike N]

On 5/11/2018 12:25 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
> I'm proposing to open a ticket for JOSM to add this tag to the list of 
> discarded tags. I'd like to hear if there are any objects or think this 
> is a good idea.
> 
> I did learn from Toby Murray this morning that you can add 
> tiger:reviewed to the list of discarded tags in JOSM by going to 
> preferences->Advanced Preferences and adding tiger:reviewed to 
> tags.discardable. Then just reload JOSM for the changed to be active.


   I'm not quite convinced since there can still be local uses and 
conventions.  I used it to show that I confirmed a road's name and where 
it began and ended.   Others use it to mean full survey with all 
attributes and signage have been collected.  But since JOSM defaults not 
to show that flag visually, I've almost stopped updating it also.   So I 
have to agree that it is no longer as useful as it once was.

  And regarding other projects: where I was thinking of a local mass 
edit to confirm conguency and remove the flag after obtaining and 
following a process to get a county to contribute data to OSM, it 
wouldn't matter if the tiger:reviewed tag was present - I would still 
match OSM roads to new data and investigate any differences.

   Bottom line - no objection here though.