[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

[Chris Hill]

On 08/06/11 21:20, Brian Prangle wrote:
> I'm firmly of the opinion that this is not work for a bot unless a tag 
> is added such as verified=no so we humans can search for what hasn't 
> been surveyed.
Wholly agree.
>
>  A bot will just replicate the OS errors and then we'll never find them!
Also agreed.

I too have checked everything I have modified. A bot is just a lazy way 
of reaching some arbitrary target of completeness and completely misses 
the benefit of a survey. It will provide a phoney status that can be 
used in meetings to show how wonderful OSM is, when actually all of the 
OS errors will be incorporated into our DB when we can avoid them by 
simply checking on the ground.

OS Locator is a great way of using OS surveyors to warn OSM surveyors 
that there are new places to check :-)

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Cheers, Chris
user: chillly