Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Ticket #17504


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2019-03-22T08:17:17+01:00 (6 years ago)
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    1111==== Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if possible.
    12 Note that this tag is highly dubious, as both division Earth landmass into continents{1} and boundaries between continents{2} are mostly subjective and unverifiable.
     12Note that this tag is highly dubious, as both division Earth landmass into continents( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Continental_models-Australia.gif ) and boundaries between continents( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundaries_between_the_continents_of_Earth ) are mostly subjective and unverifiable.
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    1414OSM is not a place to map multiple unverifiable models of global-sized objects. And adding tens of thousands of `is_in:continent` to various objects is the worst way to do this.
     
    1616This proposal (especially discardable tag part) appeared during discussing https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/remove_is_in:continent_in_USA - see https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2019-March/019332.html
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    18 {1} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Continental_models-Australia.gif
    19 {2} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundaries_between_the_continents_of_Earth
     18Is it something that requires discussion on talk/tagging mailing list or is removableness of this tag self-evident?
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