[OSM-talk] Taginfo challenge

[Rob Nickerson]

>Simply fixing the tags would do nothing >but mask the bad data.
>

Not necessarily as fixing the tag could also result in the data being
rendered therefore making it more visible for people to come in and fix (if
a local community of OSMers exists).

There are arguments on either side but I do feel that point blank
resistance to these sort of proposals does not help OSM in the long run. If
we work together we could develop a great set of tools - for example:

* Automated detection of imports (based on an assessment of the changeset).
* A "find similar" mode to help people to manually assess and fix possible
tag errors (a sort of maproulette on steroids that creates tasks based on a
users behaviour rather than a list of predefined tasks).

For now though it would be good to link taginfo to maproulette in some way.

Rob
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