[Imports] Latitude and longitude tags and other TIGER 2009 import issues

[Andy Allan]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alan Mintz wrote:
>> They seem to be mostly (all?) on imports of TIGER 2009 data, which has a
>> couple other apparent issues[1]. I looked at one node, contacted the user
>> named in the changeset and got a reply that did not lead me to think that
>> they intended on fixing the issues.
>
> Someone who imports stuff and then doesn't feel responsible for fixing
> obvious problems with it should not have imported anything in the first
> place. OSM is not the scrap heap for the world's geodata. I hope you
> have made that clear to them ;-)

Quite! And people doing bulk imports without following the community
guidelines should have that pointed out to them too.

>> Is there a generic "fixbot" that can do these kinds of tasks? Is there one
>> running somewhere that can be given fixes of this type?
>
> Automated editing of any kind is a contentious issue in OSM and should
> only be done after reasonable consultation. There is a guy in Germany,
> user name Xylome, who regularly runs a bot called "xybot". I believe
> this bot also does typos etc., but it has often been criticized in the
> past for its rogue-ness.

True. But as to the original point, could someone please bulk-remove
these tags before the next mis-guided importer does the same thing and
add lat/lon tags to all the nodes on another import? Most bad ideas in
this area originate from people copying the original TIGER import with
its superfluous tags.

Cheers,
Andy