[OSM-talk] Undiscussed (?) edits removing lesser-used highway=* tags

[GerdP]

Hi all,

sorry for the late reaction, I was offline for two days visiting a friend
for his 50th aniversary. 

Andrew Guertin wrote
> In my opinion, some of these changes are positive and some are negative, 
> but the negatives outweigh the positives.

That's bad news for me. I tried to be very careful to improve quality,
I've asked for feedback in those cases where I was not sure what the
initial mapper tried to map and AFAIR I got only very few comments
telling me that I should better revert them. So, please comment 
those changesets which you think I should revert.
And yes, during the last days I got a bit lazy asking for review, so I'll 
add more comments again.


Andrew Guertin wrote
> As a negative example, they seem to have deemed the tag 
> highway=residential_link bad, and replaced it with either 
> highway=service or highway=residential. 
> (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/18820600/history, 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/262798921/history).

I think this should really be discussed in the tagging list.
I only know a discussion in Germany which came to the 
conclusion that tags like unclassified_link, residential_link and
service_link make not much sense:
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=26083
The wiki doesn't mention those _link types as well, and my 
understanding is that only major roads have a link (if link
in english means what we call "Abfahrt/ Auffahrt" in Germany,
I would describe it as a lane that allows to decrease/increase 
speed.  


Andrew Guertin wrote
> An in-between example: on 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/38089492/history, 
> highway=stepping_stones was replaced with highway=path. While this helps 
> consumers use the data, it loses information that should have been kept 
> (perhaps with surface=* or something similar).

I've asked for a comment from the original mapper now. I agree that a
surface tag
might be missing, I just recognized this a case of a wrongly mapped ford, so
I changed 
the tag to path and added a ford=stepping_stones to the node which connects
the highway with the waterway.

greetings,
Gerd (GerdP)




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