<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Or a bot=<a href="https://fancyurl.iou/lawyeredcontract.json">https://fancyurl.iou/lawyeredcontract.json</a><br><br></div>to clearly define what the bot can and cannot do?<br><br></div>Personally I think we need all the help we can get from automation, but it needs to remain 'overseen' by an actual mapper.<br><br></div>That's why I like the todo list plugin in JOSM a lot. And why I try to help with developing tools to find errors and do trivial fixes. Especially relations are relatively brittle in the OSM world.<br><br></div><div>So I understand the resistance against Yuri's automated handling of wikidata tags. What he should do, is make his suggestions for improvement available through our validation tools and then have mappers process them.<br><br></div><div>What I don't understand is the problems people seem to have with wikidata. If an existing wikidata entry doesn't align with what we mapped, then create a new wikidata entry that does and link it to the existing entries.<br><br></div><div>You could argue that's not strictly mapping anymore, but it does enhance open data as a whole. So I think it is worthwhile to do it.<br><br></div><div>If it were possible to link from Wikidata to OSM, I'm sure it would be done that way, but since there are no stable ids on our side, tags are the only way to do it.<br><br></div><div>In JOSM it's possible to see which labels are behind the numbers. It should be trivial to do so in Id as well. And why not on the standard rendering too?<br></div><div><br></div>Polyglot<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-10-06 9:45 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> On 6. Oct 2017, at 06:02, Yves <<a href="mailto:yvecai@gmail.com">yvecai@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> @JB, I understood the bot=no tag like the add=no sticker on your physical mailbox<br>
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</span>yes, just like every active mapper havingĀ tens of thousands of mailboxes to add stickers to. What about an opt in? Add a bot=yes if you want your edits modified by bots...<br>
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cheers,<br>
Martin<br>
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