[OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

[John Smith]

2009/9/28 Matthias Versen <spam at mversen.de>:
> Ruben Wisniewski wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> thank you for your report, but whats wrong with moving the tags to a
>> relation, this is the common way as far as I know, only all ways
>> together represent the border, so the relation should hold the tags.
>> Else if there is a change, not every way has to be edited.
>
> A border-way should contain admin_level=X where X is the highest number
> of the border it represents and an boundary=administrative Tag.
>
> The whole border itself is represented by a relation with the correct Tags.
>
> You usually will never have one borderline for a whole border because
> for example a border for a country represents also (only a part of it)
> the border for a state in this country.
>
> I think that the edits made by the bot are correct.

These aren't state borders these are administrative borders
(postcodes, town etc), and I'm filling in missing sections manually to
complete postcodes as these weren't imported manually, as a result the
relation isn't correct, each section of the way needs to be tagged
with these values.