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

Shawn K. Quinn skquinn at rushpost.com
Fri Mar 22 04:40:05 UTC 2019


On 3/20/19 02:03, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> is_in:continent tag should be removed to avoid confusing newbies and
> discourage adding new instances of this undesirable tag.
> 
> I propose to run an automated edit restricted to USA that will remove
> all instances of this tag.
[...]

I'm in favor; good riddance. (Cue "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead")

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