[Talk-us] Change sets covering entire US?

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

I don't have a problem with the large size of the bounding box, as it is
clear from the changeset description what the change is, and it is
topically consistent (i.e. - it's not a changeset with a park in New York,
an ice cream shop in Albuquerque, and a river in St. Louis!).

I *DO* have a problem with the change itself, as name:en is redundant when
the name is already in English.  The data consumers that I'm familiar with
(namely, OpenMapTiles, and my own service) that are tasked with extracting
names in English are perfectly capable of looking for name:en first, and
then falling back to name if name:en is not present.  So IMO, this is tag
bloat.  I have added a changeset comment requesting an explanation for the
change and will link to this discussion.

On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 10:55 PM Tod Fitch <tod at fitchfamily.org> wrote:

> Change set 113500241 [1] showed up in my RSS feed today. I have mixed
> feelings about adding name:en=* values for all cities in the US but I guess
> it makes some sense.
>
> But I really don’t like that this change set and change set 113500319 [2]
> cover multiple states. Both changes (and a third that just is for Los
> Angeles [3]) are by a user with very few edits [4] who I suspect is not
> located in the US. I made a comment on the first change set as it modified
> the city I live in.
>
> What is should our response be to change sets that touch a large number of
> objects across the entire US? At the least I would prefer that the
> geographical extent of each change set be for more limited. Am I just being
> too sensitive?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> —Tod Fitch
>
> [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/113500241#map=3/47.35/-120.87
> [2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/113500319#map=4/37.32/-94.95
> [3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/113499006
> [4] https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kas__/history
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