On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 5:56 PM Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 at 22:35, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Would it be appropriate to propose a mechanical edit to add area=yes
>> to closed ways that are tagged boundary={aboriginal_lands,
>> national_park, protected_area} and lack any other keys that would make
>> them polygons?
>
> Wearing my pedant hat, I'd say it's appropriate to propose just about
> anything, however
> nonsensical.
Thanks for the levity!
> Taking off my pedant hat, I'd say that seems like a sensible thing to do.
> Putting on my cynic hat, I'd say you'll probably get too many objections for
> it to happen:
> people will say you have to manually ensure area=yes is actually valid in
> each situation;
Yeah. Although, how can a protected_AREA be anything but an area? But
never mind that!
> others will say that mechanical edits should never be performed for any
> reason;
Still, they get done from time to time. I've even seen bots come by
and tidy up things in my own work.
> a few will say we should not compensate for database/toolchain shortcomings by
> adding unnecessary tags.
Yeah. The ones who ignore the statement that you just made, " If it
breaks things, it won't be used."
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