[OSM-talk] Proposed bulk removal of service=driveway2

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 05:42 2023-06-27, Yves via talk đã viết:
> That would be again discussing with the proponent, as Brian started.
> Taginfo chronology already show one mass edit and revert, best to make 
> sure there's not another waste of energy beforehand.

The mass edit and revert were performed by the same mapper, who seems to 
be open to performing the edit again. (If not, I'm sure we can find 
others would be.)

The DWG had requested that Brian restore the 9,500 or so occurrences of 
service=driveway2 until the community could reach consensus on this 
issue after a discussion on one of the mailing lists. [1] The most 
definitive answer that came out of the discussion was a suggestion to 
deal with these ways on a case by case basis, which turned out to be 
aspirational.

After a brief pause, the mapper who introduced these tags continued to 
do so at a steady clip. As far as I can tell, no other user has been 
deliberately adding this tag since the matter came before this list; 
most new occurrences by uninvolved mappers have been the result of 
splitting ways. [2]

The tag's proponent is asserting that removing these tags would squander 
their unparalleled effort. [3] The counterargument has been that adding 
these tags in the first place was and continues to be wasteful and 
misguided.

In my opinion, this is an easy call. We should redo the mass deletion. 
To the extent that this episode reveals any gaps in the tagging 
vocabulary, JaLoo(oo)Nz is invited to put forward a reasonable proposal 
through the usual process and respect the outcome.

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/125373826
[2] https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1wF6
[3] 
<https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/proposed-bulk-removal-of-service-driveway2/100549/5>

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