Mechanical Edits/TillWenke/moving hitchhiking stops to 'highway=hitchhiking' (mainly in Europe/Germany)

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Who

I, User:Tillwenke using [... my bot account]

contact

message via OSM I will respond also to PMs to the personal account.

What

highway=hitchhiking as been established as an OSM Wiki standard for hitchhiking stops lately.

To have less/no competing de-facto standards on openstreetmap.org, I want to move all entries of hitchhiking stops that currently exist and follow another way of tagging to the above standard of tagging.

Here are tags that are currently used for hitchhiking stops for a significant number of entries, all of them should be transferred to the standard:

• hitchhiking=local

• highway=hitchhiking_bench

• amenity=hitchhiking_bench

1-by-1 discussion

hitchhiking=local

Mostly used with amenity=bench

• Do we want to transfer all bench features to the new node?
• Do we want to preserve "hitchhiking=local" as a tag to the new node? Adding to the highway=hitchhiking standard that this signals the purpose of local transport/commute in comparison to long distance transport (mostly on highways).

highway=hitchhiking_bench

This comes from a quite narrow understanding of hitchhiking stops as hitchhiking benches which is mostly popular in Germany. Often comes with some bench specific tags. That is why the "bench=yes" tag is important on highway=hitchhiking.

• Do we want to transfer all bench features to the new node?
• @https://mitfahrverband.org do any applications rely on this tag already?

amenity=hitchhiking_bench

Similar to "highway=hitchhiking_bench".

Why

To have less/no competing de-facto standards and to make integrating with OSM simpler for sites like hitchwiki.org, hitchmap.org or hitchr.world.

Non of the above tag is currently used by any project, see:

• https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/?key=hitchhiking&value=local#projects
• https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/?key=highway&value=hitchhiking_bench#projects
• https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/?key=amenity&value=hitchhiking_bench#projects

How

Changeset would be described and tagged with tags that mark it as automatic.

• automatic=yes
• bot=yes
• created_by=osmapi/1.0.2

Edits generated by an osmapi based program using https://github.com/matkoniecz/osm_bot_abstraction_layer .

Discussion

Now only in #Discussion.

Previously in the Proposal thread.

Repetition

Redoing this edit in the future would be treated as a new mechanical edit with a new approval process.

Code

https://github.com/Hitchwiki/osm_hitchhiking_bot

Questions as a first time mechanical editor

• Can you recommend https://github.com/matkoniecz/osm_bot_abstraction_layer for python-based mechanical edits?

Opt-out

Please comment in the discussion thread (see #Discussion).