[OSM-talk] Worldwide non-surveyed tag edits

John Baker rovastar at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 11 17:54:32 UTC 2014


I left that one in on propose (and note I didn't classify it as a typo but a change did you miss that or was it creating editing/selective reading on your part ;-) ) as I know someone would pipe up. In this case it was clearly a mistake and not a someone trying to case of a revolution in tagging standards. The types of establishments that were tagged it was clear what they were.

For some there is a presumption that all changes will might/likely do harm rather than changes are done for the good.

I think many would editors of this stuff would be happy to discuss if the mechanisms to discuss where realistic (like I said before everyone is commenting negativity on it without having done any mechanical edits and following the process to the letter) otherwise people will just carry on as they are and just do what they want and follow no sensible guidelines.

Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:27:38 +0200
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Worldwide non-surveyed tag edits
From: dieterdreist at gmail.com
To: rovastar at hotmail.com
CC: andrew.guertin at uvm.edu; talk at openstreetmap.org


2014-06-11 18:57 GMT+02:00 John Baker <rovastar at hotmail.com>:

Changing the word/meaning of a tag to correct common usage.
e.g. amenity=takeaway to amenity=fast_food

this is for example an edit that might harm, because you cannot only take "fast food" away. This is not a typo but is one of the cases where well-meaning mappers iron out the details and prevent new tagging styles from emerging...

(IMHO)

cheers,
Martin
 		 	   		  
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