I'm all for upload_uuid being removed automatically. As for tiger:separated, is it possible to remove the tag only if it's set to "no"? The 1.4% that are set to something else should probably be reviewed manually.
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some people may not even be aware of this but JOSM silently discards > the created_by tag if it exists on any object you change and upload to > the API. This tag was deemed unnecessary and counterproductive a long > time ago and this is just a way of cleaning it out of the database as > people edit. Not sure if Potlatch does anything like this. > > What do you think about adding a couple of TIGER tags to be silently > dropped? As more attributes get added to things in OSM the tag list > can get kind of big and annoying to look through, especially when some > of them are of no real value. Specifically, I try to always do a > "modified" search in JOSM before I upload and remove the > tiger:separated and tiger:upload_uuid tags from things I have touched. > > I believe the tiger:separated tag was set on all residential or higher > roads. 98.6% of the values are "no" and most of them are on minor > streets where it is not really an interesting value. On the remaining > roads it seems, in my experience, to be wrong a majority of the time > anyway. So I see no value in this tag. > > I believe Dave Hansen said the UUID tag was useful during the TIGER > import process to verify things and fix problems but I see no value in > it now. It is such a large value that it takes up about 1 GB of space > in the (uncompressed XML) planet file according to my calculations. > > As stated above, this would only delete the tags on objects that you > have already modified in some way, not on everything you download. > > Are there any other tags that people feel should be automatically > discarded? tiger:tlid and tiger:county seem mildly useful. What about > tiger:cfcc and tiger:source? I don't currently remove those from my > changesets but don't really see too much use for them either. Not > really sure about the zip code tags. They seem like they could be > useful but I am not aware of anything that actually uses them. If > there is agreement, I will submit a patch to the JOSM devs and > reference this thread. > > Toby > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
