[OSM-talk] Concern over untagged ways and map roulette

[Greg Troxel]

Generally, I think when people focus on deleting things, that's bad.

Do you really mean ways with no tags at all?  That's kind of a mess.


John Whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> writes:

> Sometimes I come across a settlement where there might be fifty
> buildings mapped but not tagged.  My thoughts are it really is better
> to tag them than delete them.

So 50 closed ways, obviously buildings (given what we know about the
world), but with no tags at all?

Agreed, one should either:

  - do nothing
  - comment on the changeset that added them and ask
  - glance at some other data, enough to convince oneself that odds are
    >90% they are building, and if so, add building=yes

I see a lot of deletionist activty as vandalism.