[Tagging] [Talk-us] plea for bot quality control

[Chris Hunter]

Perhaps a bot to auto-ban accounts that are running unauthorized bots ;)

Seriously though, I've all-but stopped contributing to the map until after
the SOTMs because of issues like this.

One of the other things that OSM desperately needs is a way to coordinate
tagging across editors and renderers.  Yes I know that the traditional
answer is "tag for reality, not for the renderer",  but in all seriousness,
the data is useless without renderers and vice-versa.

I haven't had the time lately to check-in with the US SOTM group, but I'd
like to see a schema file for tags that have gone through the approval
process that JOSM, mkgmap, Mapnik, Potlatch, etc... can all read.

Obviously, the file would need to be kept centralized and only be writable
by a limited number of people.  CVS, GIT, and MediaWIKI all have user-rights
functions to accomplish this.  Any takers?

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Nakor <nakor.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/2/2010 9:59 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
> > as i work my way west along the PA/NY border fixing connectivity
> > problems, i'm
> > suitably impressed by the patches west of Waverly/NY 17 where the ways
> > are missing,
> > only the nodes have been left behind.
> >
> > please, bots are powerful tools. don't run bots that do things like
> > remove dups unless
> > you have a quality control plan.  please.
> >
> >
>
> Richard,
>
> You might want to extend your message to talk as there are quite a few
> bots running that are not maintained by US based contributors. In PA I
> have seen a lot of duplicate nodes fixed but with duplicate ways left
> behind. I messaged some of the users doing this but did not get any
> response so far.
>
>   Thanks,
>
> N.
>
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