[OSM-talk] Removing all signposts from relations

[bartosomail at yahoo.it]

You could run a script to remove the signposts from the route relations. But, other than digging in the database history, there’s no script which could add them back (proximity of a sign to a route is not a valid criterion). So if you do so, information is indeed lost. Otherwise I can’t see why should it difficult to data consumer to strip the unwanted information before processing the route.

 

Unless the script preserves the information by storing it by alternative means, I would regard such a script as vandalism.

 

 

From: pangoSE <pangose at riseup.net> 
Sent: 25 July 2020 18:14
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [OSM-talk] Removing all signposts from relations

 

Hi

Recently it was discussed whether to have signposts in route relations. I suggest we delete them from all relations by running a script.
I se no loss of information doing that and a benefit to data consumers wanting to sort and calculate the length and height profile of the relation which I think should only contain unclosed ways belonging to the route.

What do you think?

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