[OSM-talk] Could I globally replace [building:level] with [building:levels] ?

琉璃百合 ruriyuri at protonmail.com
Tue May 17 12:52:06 UTC 2022


Hey friends, I'm a Data Science student, also an OSM mapper. Recently while cleaning local data I noticed that there are some tags like [building:level] which are supposed to be a wrong typo.

I would like to fix them to [building:levels] globally, but feel that such a large scale edit may need to be discussed beforehand, as there are currently over 10k nodes with this tag, and they are distributed around the world.

I did this using the following Overpass statement query

>> [out:xml][timeout:50];nwr["building:level"];out meta;>;out meta qt;

Or should it be changed to a country-by-country approach? But that doesn't reflect that this is one continuous edit and doesn't necessarily make it easy to see the series of edits. And I don't know how to get a list of countries.

>> [out:xml][timeout:50];{{geocodeArea:Taiwan}}->.searchArea;nwr["building:level"](area.searchArea);out meta;>;out meta qt;

What should I do? Thank you in advance for reading my email!

Best Regard.

琉璃百合



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