2024-09-08 –, Maasai Mara
About work on reducing one of minor problems of OpenStreetMap: rare, unclear and confusing tag values. Such as for example shop=mięsny
How cleanup of such tags may help? Why it is dangerous to make this kind of edits? How it can be useful and how it can be problematic or annoying?
How it can be done so benefits are much greater than damages?
What kind of help would be welcome?
Do we need attempts to change this?
Talk keywords:tagging, tags, cleanup, retagging
Active OpenStreetMap mapper and contributor to software powering OpenStreetMap. Contributed some minor improvements to multiple editors and significant improvements to StreetComplete. Active in various places, including OpenStreetMap Foundation board.
Mapper active since 2013, especially interested in mapping bicycle infrastructure, hiking trails, parks. Mapping using Vespucci, StreetComplete, JOSM, level0, special editing tools and automated edits.
Involved in improving documentation about existing tagging schemas by contributing to OpenStreetMap Wiki. Active also in inventing new tagging schema where existing ones were insufficient.