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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Mar 20, 2019, 9:21 AM by frederik@remote.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">Mateusz,<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">as far as I am concerned, *all* is_in tags are unnecessary at best and<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">potentially misleading, and could be removed. I'd prefer adding these<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">tags to the auto remove list in editors though, rather than running<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">mechanical edits to remove them.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Unfortunately there are some people that see value in keeping some <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">of them, that is also reason why this edit is proposed only for<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">one that is utterly broken.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I was not considering auto remove list before, I will think about it<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">and maybe I will propose adding it to a delete list of JOSM and iD<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">(maybe also Vespucci if it has one).<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">For "prefer" - is it "against automated edit" or "against automated <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">edit if auto remove list would be rejected" or "some other solution<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">would be better but automated edit is acceptable"?<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I strongly object to doing this in a *recurring* fashion for two reasons:<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">OK, I will drop recurring part. Documented:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/remove_is_in:continent_in_USA&diff=1823334&oldid=1823287<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">If you intend to run a bot like that in regular intervals<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">(which I would recommend not to do), then you need to provide a<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">mechanism for individual mappers to ask the bot to keep its hands off<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">something ("matkoniecz:bot=no" or so).<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">So far nobody requested it (there is opt-out section in documentation on wiki<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">that explicitly mentions it as a possibility), but I would implement it probably by<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">skipping objects ever edited by specific user (would require making<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">one more call before editing each object).<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Certainly I would not require adding pointless tags to OSM database<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">(this would be ridiculous especially as most my bot edits are "this tag should be<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">gone as it is pointless/confusing").<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div> </body>
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