[OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

Rory McCann rory at technomancy.org
Mon Oct 16 11:49:44 UTC 2017


On 15/10/17 15:14, Tobias Zwick wrote:
 > 1. If this does not require humans because both tagging schemes are
 > mutually translatable (i.e. lets say for sport=handball <->
 > sport=team_handball), then, the edit can be made automatically by a bot.

Except.... that's not true. In Ireland "handball" is Gaelic Handball¹
which is a one-on-one game, not a team sport (which is apparently a
different thing²). There are some sport=handball's tagged in Ireland.
Now the tag is clearly wrong, and we need to figure out something about
that. But if you just change sport=handball to sport=team_handball, then
you've entered incorrect data, based on incorrect assumptions.

> There is the use case where one tagging scheme has been deprecated by
> community consensus and one (combination of) tag(s) should be changed
> into another (combination of) tag(s) globally.

Big question: What defines "community consensus"?

> Though, note, for all three cases, a prior consensus is required, either
> by prior discussion or by looking at what was previously agreed on in
> the wiki. That is the case for *any* organized re-tagging of existing tags.

Not everyone (incl me) thinks that the wiki defines what a tag should
mean...


¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_handball
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handball




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