[OSM-talk] [Talk-de] Formal proposal: mechanically reverting fixme=set␣better␣denotation / denotation=cluster

John F. Eldredge john at jfeldredge.com
Mon Mar 2 20:59:49 UTC 2015


Yes, that tag sounds like it should be removed.

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On March 2, 2015 2:55:29 PM moltonel 3x Combo <moltonel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/03/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > He was interested in
> > "special" trees and was asuming that trees close to other trees were less
> > "special" (something I don't agree with per se, but in practice might have
> > worked back then, because the mappers mapping "special trees" were
> > typically mapping only those special trees, hence there was less
> > probability of other trees _mapped_ nearby, even if there were actual trees
> > in the real world).
>
> Ok, that's a reasonable intent. But not a reasonable method, because
> the heuristic is flawed, because "storing the result of an osm query
> in osm data" is bad practice, and because a list of "normal" trees is
> insanely harder to maintain than a list of "special" trees.
>
> So there's not much to redeem the tag AFAICS. I'm happy to see it
> deleted from objects, surely starting with that one import and then
> double-checking the other changesets.
>
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