[OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

[Christoph Hormann]

On Monday 13 November 2017, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
>
> The wiki deprecation only lists one =no:  highway=no, but we are not
> discussing that one yet --
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features
>
> I used the word "deprecated" in a more general term, to mean anything
> that community has decided to phase out, such as JOSM autofixes and
> deprecation list.

For the record (so people reading this later do not get a wrong 
impression) - 'deprecated' in the OSM context means that there is a 
community consensus that something is not to be used any more in new 
mapping.  The wiki, editor presets etc. are not authoritive in that 
regard and deprecation does not supersede the freedom of mappers to map 
how they see fit (in other words: it is not forbidden to use deprecated 
tags).

And automatic fixes in JOSM are not normally mechanical edits because 
they are only applied to features that are (manually) edited otherwise.  
Applying the same 'fixes' mechanically to all features with a certain 
tag however is a mechanical edit and needs to be discussed on a 
per-case basis - always, no matter how trivial, useful or obvious they 
might seem to anyone.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/