On 03/01/2018 04:44 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > there have also been situations where a local mapper had diligently > copied a business's sales slogan into the description tag and was > then upset to see this removed.
If they are upset about it, tough turkey, it doesn't belong there. > As more and more SEO firms start dumping their stuff onto OSM (and > here I am not talking about those who actually talk to us and listen, > but those who don't care), this is becoming a fight that needs to be > fought by the community as a whole. My approach this morning was different. I did an Overpass query for a huge chunk of Texas (west of San Antonio, then going east including Austin, Houston, and most suburbs, going to somewhere east of Beaumont) for anything with a description tag. I then saved the layer from JOSM and edited each occurrence of the description tag by hand (which also made it easier to do things like just change "description" to "name"). I made a few other related edits and submitted as changeset 57284276. Generally speaking, I purged anything that looked like it was trying to sell me on the business, including ad-copy-like descriptions of local libraries. I also deleted any description=* that was duplicative of the content of name=* or which added no useful information, and added appropriate tags where description=* had been used by a sloppy/lazy mapper to say things like "bowling alley" or to include opening hours. By the time I had gotten around to doing this, I had completely forgotten about the CSV export, though I was able to go through the entire chunk I had exported with my text editor in the span of a half-hour or so (I did a search for "description" and just kept hitting "next match" when ready to move on). My Java programming skills are nearly non-existent, but it is tempting to (re-)learn enough to write a plugin to automate the process from within JOSM, perhaps naming it something like "AdTerminator". -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us