[Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove is_in:continent in USA

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> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:03:04 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at tutanota.com>
> To: Talk Us <talk-us at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove is_in:continent
> 	in USA
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> is_in:continent=* is subjective as both division Earth landmass into continents[1] and boundaries between continents[2] are mostly subjective. There are many competing ways to split world into continents and OSM is not proper place to record all of them or one selected system.
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> In rare cases where one desires to assign locations to continents it can be done using location data inherently included in OSM objects and explicit tags added to part of objects are not really useful anyway.
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> is_in:continent tag should be removed to avoid confusing newbies and discourage adding new instances of this undesirable tag.
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> I propose to run an automated edit restricted to USA that will remove all instances of this tag.
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> Please comment no matter what you think about this idea! I will not make the edit without a clear support so please comment if you think that it is a good idea and if you think that it should not be done.
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I'm in favor.

Mark