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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

May 22, 2025, 16:50 by gdt at lexort.com:

> Generally, I think when people focus on deleting things, that's bad.
>
that is really overstating things, in many cases deleting things is a good 
action (large part of what DWG does is deleting edits people made)

> 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 would probably require more than 90% but in general I agree
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