"Brian M. Sperlongano" <zelonew...@gmail.com> writes: (I think Frederik's points are very reasonable.)
> This was also my reaction. An untagged way that isn't part of any relation > isn't geodata and wasn't being used by any data consumer. The only time I > would try to keep such objects is if it's clearly a trace of something > complicated, for example someone traced the perimeter of a complex lake but > forgot to add the water tags to it -- or, if it appears to be part of a > botched edit. Here, the way has a bunch of nodes, and is spatially close to a bunch of other partial traces of streams. It seems very likely to be valid non-bulk mapping effort wiht an error. >> If, on the other hand, the data has been created by someone who seems to >> still be active in OSM then I will probably add a changeset comment >> asking them to look at it. > > I do a lot of editing of boundaries, which is fairly complicated and > detailed work when dealing with all the adjacent and overlapping boundaries > at different administrative levels. It is really easy to make a mistake and > leave behind sections of boundary member ways which invariably end up as > untagged ways. This is always a mistake when it happens, and I always > appreciate it when another mapper notices this and contacts me to point it > out. So I also want to give a +1 to the idea that we should (a) not be > afraid to delete things that provide no value but also (b) at least take a > moment to look at the history of that object before deleting. Agreed, with the emphasis that deleting other people's work rather than talking to them (when they weren't a drive-by-departed contributor and it wasn't a botched import) is not good for community. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
