[OSM-talk] [BOT] [RFC]: water surfaces

[Warin]

On 23/03/2016 2:47 AM, Pierre Béland wrote:
> On 2016-03-22 14:10, Frank Villaro-Dixon wrote:
>
>
> ># First goal:
> >First goal is quite simple. The idea is to work only on relations
> >which have a natural=water .  Then, it will:
> >    * Delete natural=water from all the ways if they are NOT closed or
> >    ring 0.
> >
>
> This is a good proposition to look at unclosed polygons and see if a 
> potential incorrect keys to fix.
>
> I agree with others that using a Bot is not a safe way to handle these 
> problems. Could a script to extract such unclosed polygons be 
> proposed?  This way, each local community could take care to fix data 
> for their area, importing and examining the data in the JOSM Editor. 
> The Todo plugin could be used to go through the items to correct.
>
> Pierre
>

An unclosed polygon is an error ... and should be fixed.
These can be detected using OSM Inspector. There are lots of them!

Surely that is a higher priority than deleting duplicate tags from ways 
that exist in relations (closed of not)?
So go fix the unclosed polygons, that will have much more benefit to the 
map than the deletion of duplicates.


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