Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:03:04 +0100 (CET)
From: Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com>
To: Talk Us <talk-us@openstreetmap.org>
Subject: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove is_in:continent
in USA
is_in:continent=* is subjective as both division Earth landmass into
continents[1] and boundaries between continents[2] are mostly subjective. There
are many competing ways to split world into continents and OSM is not proper
place to record all of them or one selected system.
In rare cases where one desires to assign locations to continents it can be
done using location data inherently included in OSM objects and explicit tags
added to part of objects are not really useful anyway.
is_in:continent tag should be removed to avoid confusing newbies and discourage
adding new instances of this undesirable tag.
I propose to run an automated edit restricted to USA that will remove all
instances of this tag.
Please comment no matter what you think about this idea! I will not make the
edit without a clear support so please comment if you think that it is a good
idea and if you think that it should not be done.
[...]
I'm in favor.
Mark
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