[OSM-talk] Taginfo challenge

[Andreas Goss]

But we were never talking about such changes. We were talking about 
changing Highway=footway into highway=footway.

On 3/14/15 23:32 , SomeoneElse wrote:
> On 14/03/2015 21:48, Andreas Goss wrote:
>>> Just because people some people make bad decisions when mapping, doesn't
>>> mean that the whole project has to lower its standards.
>>
>> And some people in this case are what? 99%? I seriously there are many
>> people who would spend a second though when changing Toilets=
>
> As an aside I'd guess, based on the tag-changing changesets that I see
> in the history list locally, that between 30-50% of them are
> problematical in some way:
>
> o Sometimes what was tagged originally was nonsensical, and the correct
> response should be "clearly that makes no sense; I need to resurvey it"
> rather than "let me just change the tags to something that looks valid"
>
> o Sometimes some "non-standard tag" is removed because the person
> editing remotely simply does not understand the concept that the
> original mapper was trying to get across.  It might very well be that
> there _isn't_ an appropriate tag in wide use in OSM right now; but
> removing the original mappers tag is not the right thing to do.
>
> o Sometimes the person changing the tags is acting in good faith based
> on external QA such as the JOSM validator*, or the OSM wiki. An example
> would be the assumption that the wiki that "coniferous" was synonymous
> with "not deciduous".
>
> So to answer the original question, I think that most mappers _would_
> give a second thought to an "obvious" tag change.  It doesn't mean that
> they wouldn't change "hihgway=footway" to "highway=footway", but it does
> mean that they'd have a look at see if it really did look like a footway
> first.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
>
> * and it's worth mentioning here that every time I've raised a validator
> "false positive" with the JOSM developers they've resolved the issue
> almost immediately.
>
> ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug8nHaelWtc
>
>
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