I'm wandering through Africa at the moment basically tagging untagged ways and area=yes. I think I've corrected several thousand but something that I've just hit are boxes tagged hires=yes or no.
Most are more than a year old. These I'm unsure what to do with them if anything should they simply be deleted if more than a year old? Thoughts? Thanks John On 28 January 2017 at 18:08, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28/01/2017 22:55, Clifford Snow wrote: > >> >> iD issue 3806 [2] requested that untagged ways would prevent the user >> from uploading a changeset. Bryan thought it is fine for user to add an >> untagged way for someone else to fix. I see his point that they may get >> discouraged and not continue to contribute to OSM. >> > > Turning that around, can you suggest a way of communicating the fact that > this is a problem to the user using terms that they'd understand? I'd find > it difficult to do that. > > I fairly regularly talk to new mappers about untagged ways and "area=yes" > ways (which are the more common example) and have the "if you want > renderers and routers to know what something is, you need to do more than > give it a name" conversation. It'd be impossible to do that if they > weren't allowed to upload in the first place. > > Also, let's be honest - untagged ways aren't a "problem" in any other > sense other than disk space. They won't confuse renderers or routers. If > there are too many in a given area they might confuse other mappers, but > these other mappers are perfectly free to delete them if they can't figure > out what they were supposed to be. > > Best Regards, > > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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