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

[Jay Turner]

I am for this automated edit!

On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 at 05:56, Mateusz Konieczny via talk <
talk at openstreetmap.org> 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
>
> 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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