Is it worth mechanically removing any of the existing discardable tags from the database as well?
-- Andrew ________________________________ From: Dave F via talk <talk@openstreetmap.org> Sent: 17 March 2019 21:09 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed mechanical edit - elimination of osmarender:nameDirection - blatant tagging for the renderer Mateusz There's also a few osmarender:renderName in the UK. Maybe check osmarender:* to collate all? Simon Never comprehended the reluctance to remove dead items. Does stepping the version /really/ cause any harm? Contributors, especially newbies, often copy tags from existing examples with redundant tags often propagating as result. We allow everybody to add data (which I agree with), but there's an increasing resistance to anybody suggesting tag removal. If it improves database quality, then go for it. DaveF On 15/03/2019 20:13, Simon Poole wrote: Why would we want to create new versions of objects just to remove a tag that is not hurting anybody in any way? The correct way to handle this is to add the tag to the list of deprecated tags that should be automatically removed (essentially iD has a list and JOSM has one too), when and if the objects are ever edited the tags will then be removed. Simon Am 15.03.2019 um 20:16 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny: osmarender:nameDirection=* is an old tag that is case of tagging for the renderer. Additionally, Osmarender is defunct anyway. I propose to purge this tag from database as useless, confusing and encouraging tagging for renderer. This edit would remove about 2000 osmarender:nameDirection=* tags worldwide, with most of them in Germany and England. osmarender:nameDirection is described on OSM Wiki as "By default Osmarender will draw street names left-to-right along ways. It uses the longitude (horizontal position) of the start and end points of the way to determine the direction. In some cases, for example, very winding roads, the automatically chosen name direction is not ideal. In this case the way can be tagged with osmarender:nameDirection=-1 or osmarender:nameDirection=1 as a hint to tell Osmarender which way to draw the name. " Automated edit page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/elimination_of_osmarender:nameDirection_-_blatant_tagging_for_the_renderer _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org<mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org<mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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