[OSM-talk] Interesting cases of vandalism?

[Paul Norman]

The problem is that people think that a vote on the wiki pages means that the far more common tag is wrong. I tag my bus stops with highway=bus_stop (as well as operator, ref and shelter/bench information)

 

From: Jo [mailto:winfixit at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 2:35 PM
To: Martin Koppenhoefer
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Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Interesting cases of vandalism?

 

Ouch, you hit a sore spot there. I'm in the process of adding 35000 stops for the northern part of Belgium. If I simply add the tags approved over a year ago, they won't be rendered.
So I'll keep with the highway=bus_stop tag for the time being. Adding both ways of doing things seems like a waste of space and tagging for the renderer. Having to retag them in bulk sometime in the far away future, seems like pollution of the history, though.

So the big question is: when will bus stops tagged with only the newly accepted system be rendered (preferably on all relevant renderings), so I can do this operation 'right' all in one go?

I shudder at the tought that removing highway=bus_stop from them would be considered an act of vandalism. Maybe I should not care about rendering and simply not add that tag in the first place...

Polyglot

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