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

[Dave F]

Personally I believe changeset edits should be assessed on their quality 
rather than quantity. I'm aware I'm in the minority with this view.

As long as the changeset comment is clear & detailed I see no problem. 
In this example, explain what the tag is changing from & to and why it's 
being performed - a typo error of an agreed, well used tag.

That there aren't any validators to check word-wide edits is a reason to 
create world-wide validators, not restrict improvements to the OSM database.

DaveF

On 17/05/2022 13:52, 琉璃百合 via talk wrote:
> 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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