[OSM-talk] retag surface=paving stones:30 - proposed bot edit

[Mateusz Konieczny]

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/retag_paving_stones:30

surface=paving_stones:30 is a bad idea - detail such as colour or exact
size of paving stones or their shape or exact type of concrete/stone
should not go into surface=* 

note: most uses was already removed (bot edits that did this are linked
at surface=paving_stones:30 tag page) at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:surface%3Dpaving_stones:30

See also
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/surface=paving_stones%3A30#chronology
for retagging history, only 1363 remain today.

Yes, aliases of other tags (and for nearly all uses it is a duplicate
of surface=paving_stones) are not a large problem, having some tag
aliases it is not even top 10 problem for new data consumers or top 100
problem for openstreetmap community. But it is one of easier ones to
reduce its scale.

I propose to change all still remaining

    surface=paving_stones:30

to

    surface=paving_stones
    paving_stones:shape=square
    paving_stones:length=0.3
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