[OSM-newbies] Bot edit

[SomeoneElse]

John Chambers wrote:
> I am not a complete newbie, but I am when it comes to bot edits.  A 
> bot has come when I wasn't looking in the guise of TIGER name 
> expansion, and added southwest to the names of all the streets in my 
> subdivision.  That is in no way part of the name.  It is a deprecated 
> postal designation for the local post office.  The post office doesn't 
> even need the ordinal directions since they use zip codes anyway.  
> That same bot edit has apparently changed the name of 10,000 streets 
> in Georgia, USA.  Do I have to manually revert the ones I am familiar 
> with?  Is there any way to prevent bot edits on features that have 
> been manually edited?

I'd message the bot account saying that there's been a mistake, 
explaining what's happened and that in this case the "SW" in the name 
wasn't actually part of the name (if the bot's OSM user page says to 
message another user, then message them instead).

The person running the bot should be able to revert the erronous changes 
and reconfigure their future changes to not make changes that they 
shouldn't be making.

It might be worth either or both of you mentioning it on the talk-us 
mailing list, or another US-specific channel, as I suspect there's far 
more expertise there than here about "what works and what doesn't" about 
Tiger name expansions there than here.

Cheers,

Andy