[OSM-talk] Unauthorized mechanical edit - changeset 11913785 - amenity=airport->aeroway=aerodrome

[Alan Mintz]

At 2012-06-17 03:38, bruno wrote:
>Hi!
>   without too much thinking and without discussing it (and without
>reading the wiki) I made a worldwide mechanical edit
>
>http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/11913785
>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/White_Rabbit
>
>I modified 1120 elements which had the amenity=airport tag:
>* those which already had aeroway=* were just stripped of
>amenity=airport and the aeroway=* was left untouched;
>* those elements with just amenity=airport and no aeroway=* were
>stripped of of amenity=airport and added aeroway=aerodrome.
>
>I have the old version of the nodes [1].
>I'm sorry for the mess :-|
>What do we do?

I'm not sure what the issue is here. Why do people think this needs a 
complete revert? Is amenity=airport documented or supported anywhere? Isn't 
it likely that these _are_ mostly airports (which, of course, should have 
been verified first)?

While the Korean schools are certainly wrong, I'd bet that most of them 
were, mis-tagged airports. I'd ask the original contributor why the schools 
were tagged that way, if possible. Otherwise, take the opportunity to look 
at the names, other tags, imagery, etc. in determining which of the edits 
should remain.

According to taginfo, there are a _ridiculous_ 7641 values for the amenity 
tag, the vast majority of which have single-digit quantities (i.e. less 
than 10 occurrences). It seems people are just blindly making shit up 
instead of trying to figure out the correct tag to use, and this problem is 
only getting bigger.

--
Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>