[OSM-newbies] Bot edit

[Serge Wroclawski]

What is the name of the way/changeset?

- Serge

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 3:29 PM, John Chambers <jchamml at gmail.com> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Upstream
>
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