[OSM-talk] Proposed bot edit: remove "surface=no data" and other useless surface values

[Mateusz Konieczny]

I propose to remove following surface tags by doing an automated edit:

surface=unclassified https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/surface=unclassified
surface=no data https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/surface=no%20data
surface=unknown https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/surface=unknown
surface=undefined https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/surface=undefined
surface=unspecified https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/surface=unspecified
surface=Unspecified https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/surface=Unspecified

and other such null values, explictly expressing that surface is not
tagged. Note that

surface=yes
surface=*
surface=no
surface=<different>
surface=surface
surface=Maxar
surface=a

and similar values would NOT be removed despite being utterly useless
as a surface=* value as repair may be possible or is it possible that
it is some unusual tagging scheme which is actually useful

Edit would be automatic, rerun from time to time, split into small
changeset by geographic areas and run by
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mateusz
Konieczny%20-%20bot%20account/history bot account

Why it is useful? It helps newbies to avoid becoming confused. It
protects against such values becoming established. Without drudgery
that would be required from the manual cleanup. It also makes easier to
add missing surface= values

Why automatic edit? I a have massive queue (in thousands and tens of
thousands) of automatically detectable issues which are not reported by
mainstream validators, require fixes and fix requires review or
complete manual cleanup.

There is no point in manual drudgery here, with values completely useless.

This values here do NOT require manual overview. If this cases will
turn out to be an useful signal of invalid editing than I will remain
reviewing nearby areas where bot edited.

Yes, bot edit WILL cause objects to be edited. Nevertheless, as result
map data quality will improve.

I have experience with bot edits and will repair any damage caused
by bot edits that I operate.
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