I think that this would be a great Maproulette subject!
> On Mar 22, 2016, at 9:23 AM, Maarten Deen <md...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> On 2016-03-22 14:10, Frank Villaro-Dixon wrote: >> >> # First goal: >> First goal is quite simple. The idea is to work only on relations >> which have a natural=water . Then, it will: >> * Delete natural=water from all the ways if they are NOT closed or >> ring 0. > > I have been fixing waterways and water areas in the New Orleans area. I think > most problems are due to a botched import. There are a number of unclosed > areas, some water, some wetland. They just need to be closed which sometimes > is just connecting the last two dots, sometimes it is merging two ways. > > It would be very unhelpful if the natural=water tags of these ways would be > deleted. Then you have to go search in the history to see what it was. Is it > natural=water or natural=wetland? It would increase the workload in fixing > this. > > Please, do not do this. You can flag them as defective so that someone has a > look, but don't delete the tags. > > Since deleting tags from unclosed ways does not solve anything (and IMHO > makes things worse), this should be done manually. It would be a perfect case > to enter in maproulette <http://maproulette.org/> > > Regards, > Maarten > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk