Changeset: 61664787
Repair vandalised highway refs
Closed by tms13
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Discussion
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Comment from SomeoneElse
Is U4925 on https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31959185 really usable as a reference on that road (i.e, can someone navigate by it)? If not, it really doesn't belong in the "ref" field (at least - that's been the concensus in GB for some years, and was recently discussed at https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2018-August/021690.html . If you'd like to see "official" refs such as unsigned U refs rendered you can at e.g. https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=17&lat=58.444928&lon=-4.48533 .
Best Regards,
Andy -
Comment from Vclaw
The ref tag is not just for navigation. There is no consensus for removing all of these ref tags.
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Comment from trigpoint
They have been moved, not removed. No information has been removed.
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Comment from SomeoneElse
I've just reread https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2018-August/021690.html and actually there is a pretty clear consensus there.
For the avoidance of doubt (since I have moved "ref" tags to "official_ref" near me after verifying that they aren't useful as references) it's worth mentioning that I've done that only after observing that it's the clear consensus in GB and has been for some years; initially I'd suggested something like "ref:signed=no", but "official_ref" or similar clearly had more traction for these roads, even before the most recent edits.
No data's been lost; renderers can still show them if they wish.
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Comment from tms13
Well, if that's what's going to happen, it needs the tag wiki for 'ref' and any replacement tag to explicitly say when to use the standard tagging and when to use the new tagging - preferably with plenty of time to update editors, renderers and any scripts that group results by road, before such changes take place, surely?
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