[OSM-talk] Code of conduct for automated (mass-) edits

[Ulf Lamping]

DavidD schrieb:
> 2008/9/29 Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping at googlemail.com>:
> 
>> P.S: While I was doing a lot of changes in the past weeks, you were the
>> only one complaining - any other reaction I got was simply positive ...
> 
> Here is another complaint from last month.
> http://openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/way/25207084/history
> 
> I don't think deleting a horse=bridleway tag from a bridleway is
> really helping that much. Probably the tag was entered by mistake but
> why delete it? Is it really causing any harm?
> 

First of all, you saying yourself that the change did not do real harm  ;-)

If you think about how to detect/fix any misstagged bridleways that are 
only tagged as horse=bridleway and *not* tagged as highway=bridleway 
(well, which is not the case here), you may encounter that 
horse=bridleway is a very good candidate to look at.

So in JOSM I've just manually added highway=bridleway and removed 
horse=bridleway (so next time I have a look only at new potential 
problems). Doing this in JOSM for each case individually is a PITA and 
to be honest I don't see a loss of information here.

Getting 30 "new" bridleways on the map without really loosing any 
information is worth this change IMHO - but your milage may vary ...

Regards, ULFL

P.S: If you would only know how many of such obvious mistakes like 
"aerialway=cinema" I've seen while I was having a detailed look at the 
tagwatch output - and not even mentioning the common typos ...