Mateusz,
as far as I am concerned, *all* is_in tags are unnecessary at best and
potentially misleading, and could be removed. I'd prefer adding these
tags to the auto remove list in editors though, rather than running
mechanical edits to remove them.
Unfortunately there are some people that see value in keeping some
of them, that is also reason why this edit is proposed only for
one that is utterly broken.
I was not considering auto remove list before, I will think about it
and maybe I will propose adding it to a delete list of JOSM and iD
(maybe also Vespucci if it has one).
For "prefer" - is it "against automated edit" or "against automated
edit if auto remove list would be rejected" or "some other solution
would be better but automated edit is acceptable"?
I strongly object to doing this in a *recurring* fashion for two reasons:
OK, I will drop recurring part. Documented:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/remove_is_in:continent_in_USA&diff=1823334&oldid=1823287
If you intend to run a bot like that in regular intervals
(which I would recommend not to do), then you need to provide a
mechanism for individual mappers to ask the bot to keep its hands off
something ("matkoniecz:bot=no" or so).
So far nobody requested it (there is opt-out section in documentation on wiki
that explicitly mentions it as a possibility), but I would implement it probably by
skipping objects ever edited by specific user (would require making
one more call before editing each object).
Certainly I would not require adding pointless tags to OSM database
(this would be ridiculous especially as most my bot edits are "this tag should be
gone as it is pointless/confusing").
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