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

[Steve Friedl]

> I believe folks still use it in places to indicate that no-one has reviewed it on the ground, but I cannot find the thread(s) where that was brought up. 

I’m exactly one of those users: once I’ve confirmed or fixed the object, I delete the tag, so this is still useful for me as a kind of to-do list.

I also delete tiger:reviewed=yes tags when otherwise editing an object.

Steve


From: Martijn van Exel [mailto:m at rtijn.org] 
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2018 9:56 AM
To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Drop the tiger:reviewed tag from roads

I believe folks still use it in places to indicate that no-one has reviewed it on the ground, but I cannot find the thread(s) where that was brought up. 

I think a mechanical removal may be a bit overzealous, even though I personally wouldn't shed a tear. As long as there is at least one tag left that would indicate TIGER as the original source, so we can continue to detect 'unmodified TIGER' roads.
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On Fri, May 11, 2018, at 10:25, Clifford Snow wrote:
The tag, tiger:reviewed that is left over from the 2006/7 import of TIGER roads has lost any meaning. For example, look at 196th Avenue Southwest [1] in Thurston County WA. It's on version 6 yet still has tiger:reviewed=no. Note I picked this street at random from a overpass query [2]. I see this tag all the time. It's time to get rid of it. Not through a mechanical edit, but by editors making changes to roads.

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.

[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/173554611
[2] http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/yJh

Clifford

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