Personally, I used to rigorously remove tiger:reviewed=*
or set it to yes
back in 2008, but then I gave up the following year and never looked back. These days, I ignore it just like all the other tiger:*=*
keys. At least tiger:name_base=*
can occasionally help me untangle the many accidental merges made in Potlatch 1. And tiger:county=*
can help me recover lost data from back when we incorrectly assumed we didn’t need to distinguish name:left=*
from name:right=*
and ref:left=*
from ref:right=*
on a county line road.
That said, some other mappers have personally adopted this key in their respective areas of interest, using it in conjunction with Overpass as sort of a poor man’s MapRoulette. Removing tiger:reviewed=yes
could be disruptive to them, but I’d be interested in helping these users migrate to MapRoulette or another tasking manager.
Ironically, in the suburban areas where I often map, if you were to remove all the tiger:*=*
tags from a street, I would have to give the street much more scrutiny. Typically, many non-TIGER streets are poorly drawn ML extractions or segmented GPS traces with incorrect start and end points, or with street names copied from copyrighted sources that I have to follow up on. From this perspective, keeping tiger:reviewed=yes
but removing the other tiger:*=*
tags would be the safer option.