On 8/30/2014 8:15 PM, Doug Hembry wrote:
removed as no longer needed? I assume tiger:reviewed=no can be deleted, but what about the others? Should a new source= tag be added to reflect the review, alongside the tiger:source= tag?
You may remove reviewed=no after you are confident that the road information is now accurate. Editors will automatically remove unneeded tags. source= should be added to the changeset when possible - that way it applies to your edits, and the next editor may not notice or update a source= on the way.
highway=residential. But on the ground today, the roads have deteriorated into tracks, maintained as fire roads and for recreation. The road name has fallen out of use (no road signs, and trail names often different from their old road names). How to handle this? Do all the old Tiger tags go? Does the name= tag go? It seems a pity to discard the old information about what these tracks/roads once were - they are pertinent to understanding the historical record of the region, even if the renderers don't use such information. Is there some way to modify the old tags as no longer current, but leave them in place?
Update the way information to reflect its current state. Tiger tags are not important for that case: they may all be deleted. OpenstreetMap retains the history of the way, so the current information will not be completely discarded in any case.
Q3: A special case of Q2: In some cases, these old Tiger roads have disappeared completely - overgrown and no longer in use, leaving perhaps only the outline of a road bed and an absence of large trees. Should all the information about such roads be deleted from OSM? Same concern applies as for Q2.
It will be best to just delete the road - it will be in the history record for that region.
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