https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/166510759
Cheerio John On Thu, 22 May 2025 at 11:31, Mateusz Konieczny via talk < [email protected]> wrote: > if untagged ways corresponds to something clearly visible on aerial then > deleting them is clearly harmful > > can you link examples of bad edits and MR task inducing them? > > > May 22, 2025, 16:29 by [email protected]: > > I've stumbled across a couple of mappers who have been deleting untagged > ways identified by map roulette. > > Is there any guidance I can point them to? > > They aren't easy to spot as the evidence disappears quite quickly but I've > seen a section of waterway quite visible on Bing or Mapbox mapped but > untagged that has been deleted, I've seen paths into villages visible on > Bing or Mapbox again deleted. > > The other issue is the imagery they are working from might be out of date > and I don't like deleting things just because they aren't shown in Bing. > > Sometimes deletion of an untagged way is correct, I've done it myself when > the untagged way maps a waterway that is already mapped, or a highway that > is already mapped but this is deleting when there is nothing underneath. > > Sometimes I come across a settlement where there might be fifty buildings > mapped but not tagged. My thoughts are it really is better to tag them > than delete them. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks John > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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