Hi, Joseph: Thanks for the info. Just after sending this email to the HOT list, I also sent an OSM message to Tim McWright (OSM user tmcw) to ask him for information.
He told me to "go ahead", as "the tag isn't relevant to OpenStreetMap". He said too that there is actually one page documenting this import, that afected Tanzania, but also RDC, Sudan, Kenya, Burundi, and Rwanda [1]. So, I guess it's perfectly safe to delete this AUTO_ID=* tag. I will do it in one simple changeset. The reason I got interested in this tag is that mappers are finding it over and over during the Tanzania JSI road import [2], and they are keeping it because the general rule is to keep tags of already present ways, unless they have a good reason to modify/delete them. Deleting them at once will avoid this problem, and will make the data cleaner for the country. Cheers, Rafael. [1] https://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/apr/22/thousands_of_miles_added_open_street_map/ [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Tanzania/Tanzania_MSD_%26_JSI_road_import_workflow On 29/09/15 16:10, Joseph Reeves wrote: > hi Rafael, > > I asked something similar in 2010 and was told that the IDs can be removed: > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-March/049175.html > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-March/049207.html > > I don't think I've touched any Africover data for a while, but when > I was I aligned it to satellite imagery and tagged it up as best I could. > > Cheers, Joseph > > > > > > On 29 September 2015 at 03:02, Rafael Avila Coya <ravilac...@gmail.com > <mailto:ravilac...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi, all: > > I've seen there are hundreds of highways in Tanzania (about 1,700 at > this moment) that come from an old (most probably undocumented) bulk > import of Africover data, done back on 8-July-2009 [1]. Most of these > ways have an odd AUTO_ID key tag, that is probably an Africover > reference number. > > My understanding is that this tag is most probably useless, and > undocumented too, so my idea would be to delete this tag from all > ways, unless there is a nice reason to keep them. Makes sense? > > Cheers, > > Rafael. > > [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/1775247 > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org <mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- Twitter: @ravilacoya <http://twitter.com/ravilacoya> *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)* <http://www.hotosm.org> _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
