[OSM-talk] Standard way across edits to tag changesets

[sly (sylvain letuffe)]

> The following are the changeset tags used at least 100 times as of a couple
> weeks ago

Many thanks for those very usefull statistics.

> A few comments on the ones that may not be obvious:
> 
> Build/version are used by some editors to expand on created_by

I might gather those in a "automatically added editor related tags"

> transport=car and transport=foot are the two common values for that key

Funny one.

> bot=yes created_by values indicate overwhelmingly specialized programs
> (e.g. the redaction bot)

Then we might better continue using it, as long as we define rather precisely 
what is meant by bot, and if my sentence :"Use this when the performed edit 
was entirely done by a bot without human control during the whole operation" 
is or isn't relevant and clear enough to describe those edits.


> The current best practice tagging for an import changeset appears to be
> import=yes, source=* and website=link to the appropriate wiki website.

I wouldn't use "best", but maybe "mostly used"
By the way url is here 110 times while website is at 64 (personal stats).
There is also a "type" tag used 518 times, with values :
"fix" "import" "improvement" "revert" with idea really close to plok's 
proposed "edit_type"
(import is here 76 times)


> It is also useful sometimes to have internal upload details in the
> changeset tags (e.g. a filename or unique ID which allows you to find
> which upload failed if problems are later found)

Sure, whatever my table contains, every one is free to add specific tags, 
since, anyway, they'll have to create special analysis tools to handle ID or 
filename imports problems

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sly (sylvain letuffe)