[OSM-talk] Unwayed segments - action required now

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

>> I'll update it again as soon as the new planet file is out.
>
> Thanks. Any idea of the overall scale of the problem, and how much
> progress we are making in getting rid of them?

If I disregard the area of the Netherlands where the ongoing AND  
import had temporarily created many unwayed segments, we had about  
620k unwayed segments the planet file two weeks ago, and 550k in last  
week's planet.

It is good to see that people are fixing things in their local areas,  
even though this is unlikely to bring the number down below 500k  
(we'll get new numbers in a few hours I hope). But I think this is  
uncritical - I believe there are many more or less remote areas were  
tracks have been auto-converted into segments, often even without  
filtering. Every now and then when working in rather untouched areas  
(like parts of Iceland recently) I stumble across a cluster of these  
segments. I assume that once someone really takes up work in such an  
area, the first thing they will do is remove all that auto-generated  
stuff and do it properly.

I agree with everyone that auto-generated ways should be tagged (I  
propose "note=FIXME formerly unwayed segment" and "note=FIXME  
formerly tagged segment"). Anything we get rectified before the  
transition is good as it won't clutter history afterwards; but  
there's no need to hold back the 0.5 switch because of unwayed segments.

Bye
Frederik

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