I've already reverted given that the number of changes would make it very problematic to wait longer.
Am 04.11.2017 um 13:19 schrieb marc marc:
Hello,
Le 04. 11. 17 à 12:51, Simon Poole a écrit :
Jonathan Masur has added a larger number of historic municipality boundaries in the canton Vaud, breaking a fair number of real boundaries in the process, see https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/53490105#map=14/46.5737/6.7725
Any Objections to reverting all of this?
yes, 3 :
- first let him have some time to answer in stead of "reverting
the changesets in a couple of hours"
- the changeset you show doesn't any added boundary... boundary already
exist in the history of those 3 relations. what's broken precisely ?
See https://wambachers-osm.website/index.php/10-osm-reports/1073-countries-compa...
- in the area I map a lot, after the merge of municipaly, you delete old
boundary, because, as read on the wiki "il is clean to not having to maintain old boundary". but in fact, removing historical boundary has made me lose hours : many track change their name according to the old municipal boundaries. the postal addresses of buildings depending (largely) on the old comunal boundaries. Old boundaries are so useful that I have a josm file with their way that I load every time I need it. I find it useless and counterproductive that these info are lost in osm while keep them would require less effort (no maintenance as it will not change anymore, maybe just prefix with disued) I was thinking about opening a topic about it, but it's probably an opportunity to talk about it now.
You misunderstood he has been adding historical boundaries that never existed in OSM prior to his changes (and that from an undocumented source), this is orthogonal to the question of retaining boundaries that no longer exist due to mergers etc.
I'm still looking at the changeset and.. woaw you already revert it.... so why asking ? it's really a VERY bad way to do
See above. Given that it amounts to an undocumented, undiscussed and likely illegal import it would have been zapped in any case, doing it now simply reduced the amount of work (if individual changes are determined to be OK after the fact, they can always be reinstated, that is not an issue).
Simon
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