Yes, latest update date can be a hint
but treating it is as an argument to avoid
making an edit is really weird to me.
19 paź 2020, 14:51 od tagging@openstreetmap.org:
> I'm in no way supporting the proposal, but this argument of 'it'll make
> the entities look fully up to date" is illogical. If taken to it's
> conclusion, nothing will ever be update again.
>
> It's false to think that just because an entity was amended yesterday, it
> means it's up to date:
> If a typo in a road's name is amended, but the road is left incorrectly
> tagged as 'tertiary' instead of 'primary' it's not up to date.
>
> Likewise an entity previously amended 10 years ago doesn't mean it's
> inaccurate.
>
> DaveF
>
>
>
> On 18/10/2020 22:04, Oliver Simmons wrote:
>
>> Doing this would make over 3M objects have their date updated to the
>> present, when the last meaningful change may have been over 5 years
>> ago.
>> It creates the illusion of data being up-to-date when all that was
>> changed was a tag key.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 18 Oct 2020, 22:02 Graeme Fitzpatrick, <>>
>> graemefi...@gmail.com>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 20:39, Rory McCann <>>>
>>> r...@technomancy.org>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> *definitely* not something one does auomatically.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But would it be so impossible? (Not suggesting that it
>>> should actually be done!)
>>>
>>> Couldn't a bot be set to simply find all cases of
>>> man_made=, regardless of what it is, & change them to
>>> human_made=, similar to using Find & Replace in a Word
>>> document?
>>>
>>> & no, as you can see, I don't understand the
>>> technicalities behind it all, so please be gentle with
>>> explaining that I'm an idiot! :-)
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Graeme
>>>
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