[OSM-talk] Mass-replace outdated water=salt

[Mike Thompson]

I am not opposed to the general concept, however:

1) The specific process you plan to use should be documented on the wiki.
If it is simple, then this should be easy.
2) Salt water in Colorado? This seems a little unlikely.  I downloaded some
of the NHD and I can't see how the original importer determined that these
were salt water.  There is a possible ftype in the NHD for estuary which
would imply salt water, but the features I looked at didn't have this
ftype.  A mass mechanical edit may simply perpetuate bad data here.

Mike

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:53 PM Emil Linus Albrecht <
admin at sandschmecktgut.de> wrote:

> Hi, I was on the Slack yesterday,
>
>
> The issue came from an old import and should have been partly resolved by
> the importer and will be done. Sorry for not knowing, before posting to the
> list.
> Am 10.11.2021 um 20:31 schrieb Andrew Hain:
>
> This would clearly be a logical thing to do. It would perhaps be useful to
> either add relevant water=* tags (such as water=lake) to the ways or to
> flag in a QA check that their absence is a loose end.
>
> --
> Andrew
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Emil Linus Albrecht <admin at sandschmecktgut.de>
> <admin at sandschmecktgut.de>
> *Sent:* 09 November 2021 19:18
> *To:* Talk OSM <talk at openstreetmap.org.> <talk at openstreetmap.org.>
> *Subject:* [OSM-talk] Mass-replace outdated water=salt
>
> Hi,
>
> More than 10 years ago, the "Water details" proposal was accepted. It
> included the now well-known tag "salt=yes/no".
>
> Up to the proposal, the tag "water=salt" was mostly used for salt
> waters. Since its deprecation, the usage has been not really been added
> anywhere and is very slowly getting removed. Currently, it's mostly
> still present in some areas of the USA.
>
> Since "salt=yes" is now far more popular, I suggest ending this all with
> an automated edit, retagging all "water=salt" to "salt=yes". What do you
> think?
>
>
> Thank you - Emil
>
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