[OSM-talk] Craigslist OpenStreetMap Rendering Issue

[Philip Barnes]

On Sun, 2015-05-31 at 07:56 +0200, Marc Gemis wrote:
> I've seen this topic being discussed here or elsewhere in the past. I
> thought that the consensus was that in some area's (a Spanish town I
> believe), it was ok to leave the oneway=no. The reasoning was that
> most streets in that town were oneway=yes, and the oneway=no was used
> to indicate that this road was surveyed and and an exception to the
> oneway=yes.
> 
> 
> so a world-wide mechanical edit should not be performed.
> 
+1

iD does prompt users to fill in tags such as oneway=no, horse=yes on
roads and does I think lead new mappers to believe that such tags are
required. Whilst I sometimes remove these as part of an edit, a
mechanical edit would be wrong for the reasons stated above.

Phil (trigpoint)