[josm-dev] The Golden Rules

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>wrote:
>
>>  (Our rule is, in a nutshell: If you personally look at every object you
>> change then it's fine; if however you select all objects that have a
>> certain property and then change that globally without even noticing
>> which countries you're editing in then that's a mechanical edit that
>> requires prior discussion to make sure you're not breaking things
>> inadvertently.)
>> Thoughts?
>
>
Note that some people take the Mechanical Edit Police more strictly than
the above...
... finding editing outside of local knowledge areas objectionable.

Perhaps if more of the bad edits can be weeded out, more people would see
value to "mining" the OSM
data for mistagged entries like:
amenity=Barstow Police Department
amenity=Mount Road Police Station
amenity=Park Police
amenity=Rajarbagh Police Lines
Which can be fixed up even remotely.