[OSM-talk] OpenRailwayMap Electrification Status vs tag electrification=no

[john whelan]

So you would be happy to add a tag of lit=no to all highways in rural
Africa?

If not where do you draw the line?

Thanks John

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 10:20 Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23/02/2022 14:31, john whelan wrote:
>
> ... and there is a cost in the size of the database.
>
>
> Of all of the arguments you could make, that's not a good one.  It's
> certainly not a good argument for removing a tag and creating a new object
> version, which will make the database bigger!
>
> Generally speaking, if a tag's there, and you don't think it serves any
> purpose, but someone else does, then you're probably wrong.  It might be an
> odd "oneway=no" (perhaps in a town where almost all streets are oneway) or
> something else, but sometimes it's important to know that "=no" is an
> actual surveyed value that might not be expected locally, even if it would
> be very common elsewhere.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Andy
>
>
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