[OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

[Lester Caine]

John Smith wrote:
> 2009/9/28 Ruben Wisniewski <ruben at all-in-si.de>:
>> 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.
> 
> Because these boundaries were never fully imported so when I add
> sections of missing boundary I need to re-add the missing tags that
> were removed and add them to the individual ways again.

If I am reading this thread correctly, I think John's problem is that 
the RELATION is not totally attributed to ABS, and so only those element 
that were imported should be attributed while other unattributed data 
will be added at the relation level? ADDITIONAL ways added to the 
relation that are not from the original import should not be attributed 
to ABS and so a bot that blindly strips information without 
understanding the nature of that data SHOULD NOT BE RUNNING ?
I can imaging a number of situations where the initial information would 
have a common set of tags that COULD be interpreted as applying to the 
relation level, but then latter additions require all of that 'tidying' 
to be undone manually to put the correct data back :(
And this seems to be the case here?

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