I don't see a problem with this as the major concerns: big edit boundaries, what does it affect? are taken care of by documentation
if building=building is not or was not a wiki approved way of tagging, this seems more on the side of linting osm tags than it does a "mass blind edit"/import On Fri, Jun 8, 2018, 1:22 PM Mateusz Konieczny, <matkoni...@tutanota.com> wrote: > building=yes is a standard way to mark building without specifying its > type. Editors wishing to specify building type would (directly or > indirectly, for example using StreetComplete) look through buildings > tagged as building=yes. > > building=building is an unexpected way to mark building without > specifying its type and therefore retagging this duplicate to > building=yes would improve tagging without any information loss. > > It would also (as an useful byproduct) remove this tag from popular > values at https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/building#values and > ensure that it will not become proposed as a valid value by an iD > editor (at this moment threshold for building value is 14514 uses). > > Between 4000 and 5000 objects are expected to be edited. See > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/building=building#map for a > geographic distribution. > > Changeset would be split into small areas to avoid continent-sized > bounding boxes. As this tag is on buildings it is not expected that any > object will force bounding box to be extremely large. > > For documentation page see > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/moving_building%3Dbuilding_to_building%3Dyes > For documentation of my previous proposals (including both proposals > that failed to be approved and approved ones) see > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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