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

[john whelan]

 Can we have HOT fix the data, as there's other issues with the tags used.

It would be nice but realistically it will never happen.

I agree removing them will stop newbies copying these errors so on balance
I think it is a good idea.

Cheerio John

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 3:18 AM Paul Norman, <osm at paulnorman.ca> wrote:

> On 2022-07-27 9:51 p.m., Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote:
> > 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
>
>
> I agree with unclassified, unknown, and undefined as they are all coming
> from editor errors around the world, and removal will help prevent them
> while not removing useful information.
>
> I disagree with "no data", because the only use seems to be from an
> import that was never discussed, and if that is resolved the tag will go
> away.
>
> "unspecified" seems associated with some HOT organized editing from 2012
> and 2017. Can we have HOT fix the data, as there's other issues with the
> tags used.
>
> "Unspecified" doesn't seem worth automatic rules for two occurrences.
>
>
> What software do you intend to use to do the edit, and how often do you
> plan to re-run it?
>
>
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