[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

[Jason Cunningham]

On 9 June 2011 15:59, Derick Rethans <osm at derickrethans.nl> wrote:

> I can. I've a friend in the Netherlands that I'd say is the typical
> person that we want as mapper. He had mapped a lot of town Which then
> got wiped out by the AND import, and he didn't bother with OSM for a
> looong time. Luckily, he now finally started contributing again.
> Let's hope he keeps it up.
>

There has been no suggestion that there are plans to wipe out data. The wiki
suggests road names should only be added under the following conditions

   - The bounding box for the road matches the bounding box for the OS
   Locator entry within 10%
   - There is only one OS Locator entry that overlaps the road.
   - Only if the 'name' field is empty or missing
   - The bounding box is completely within the permitted area of operation.
   - Only if no road has ever existed in OpenStreetMap history for the area
   with the same name (to avoid adding back out-of-date names)

There is definite room for arguing that it will reduce active mapping in
some situations.

Jason
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