[OSM-talk] Edit review: intermittent waters

[Thomas Davie]

On 29 May 2012, at 12:51, Worst Fixer wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I ask you to review my planned edit.
> 
> There are lot of ways to tag intermittent water feature found in database. Most popular is intermittent=yes. All others come from different old imports. Date ist 2009-2010 year. I countiered ~350 000 features tagged in different such ways. Most is done by 10 users. 
> 
> I ask users iandees and SK53 join discussion, as most of such tags were imported by them. Others welcome too.
> 
> I propose unification of tagging in all this imports.
> 
> Following tags converted to intermittent=yes:
> 
> frequency=intermittent
> occurrence=intermittent
> stream=intermittent
> water=intermittent
> type=intermittent
> 
> Following tags converted to intermittent=no:
> 
> frequency=perennial
> stream=perennial
> 
> stream=ephemeral converted to intermittent=ephemeral.
> 
> Just removed stream=fixme.
> 
> Converted "fdate" field from NHD imports in iso8601 date, moved to check_date tag.
> 
> Removed all id-like tags.
> 
> If no valid objections will be raised, I upload this change on 2012-06-12.
> 
> Here is overview:
> Short, to get the idea: http://worstfixer.000a.biz/04-intermittent/overview-short.html
> Long, for exact analysis: http://worstfixer.000a.biz/04-intermittent/overview-full.html.gz
> 
> I currently looking for place to upload exact .osm.gz for a preview. Suggestions welcome.

Hi WorstFixer, I think this one might need a little more thought – what happens to something previously tagged water=intermittent... it becomes intermittent=yes... intermittent what?  I doubt there's a nice way of predicting what water= should become to make it correctly tagged.

Bob
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