What is required to consider a tiger road reviewed?

[Richard (Richard Fairhurst)]

@Minh_Nguyen

Either way, I’m not so sure that tiger:reviewed=no is the only way to detect unreviewed roads. After Ito World’s TIGER Edited Map went away, we developed several Overpass queries to approximate whether even a modicum of review had taken place. Some of these queries focus on who last touched the way and when, to detect either the original import or a subsequent mass edit of road names. The most thorough one does the same for each node forming the way. Ideally, TIGERMap would take a harder look at authorship metadata instead of relying on a tag that often doesn’t get touched even after very thorough review. Would that be feasible for cycle.travel too?

I have looked into this sort of approach in the past and concluded it doesn’t really work without a full history planet, unfortunately. And when you have to process a full history planet on every map update just to work out whether a highway is actually a road or not, something has gone very wrong somewhere.

What I’d really like to see is a bulk edit of rural highways using something like this. That would go further and faster to fix the problem than pretty much anything else. Generally I’m of the school of thought that bulk edits hinder the development of community, but when it’s been 17 years and there’s no sign of the problem getting sorted any time soon, I tend to think desperate measures are needed.