[Talk-GB] Mass edits of landuse /natural tags

[John Baker]

Frederik,

Like I said before all these are not scripted/automated and I look for conflicts. I explained the process I used and that seemed to completed with your original post here. Are you saying now it does not? *shrug*

And I use both wiki pages and common practice, like I explained previously. 

Are there any cases that I have changed where I have not?

John


> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:33:11 +0200
> From: frederik at remote.org
> To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Mass edits of landuse /natural tags
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 25.04.2013 19:07, John Baker wrote:
> > The wiki is a consensus of opinion over the years about how to tag
> > things.
> 
> It isn't. There have been more than enough cases where after *years* it 
> was found that somewhere hidden away in a wiki page there was a 
> statement that was absolutely not reflecting any kind of consensus. 
> There are, regularly, votes in which Wiki users decide to "deprecate" 
> some tag used by thousands, and replace it with something else - all 
> that with 20 people participating and voting.
> 
> We aim to make the Wiki a good documentation of our work in OSM, but 
> where Wiki and practice diverge, practice rules. That's why before you 
> take some wiki page and interpret it as code to modify the database, you 
> are expected to discuss - to make sure that (a) the wiki page is right, 
> (b) your reading of the wiki page is right, (c) the algorithm you are 
> planning to apply has no unfortunate side effects, and so on.
> 
> > To be honest I am less likely to engage in discussion about future edits
> > as all they will seem to end in is: always message the original editor,
> > always do a manual survey and you don't know what you are doing - all of
> > which I strongly disagree with.
> 
> As long as you're making manual edits you can get away with a lot; 
> people will assume that if you make a specific change then you have 
> valid reasons for that (e.g. some kind of additional source rather than 
> just an algorithm). Any sort of mechanical mass-edit requires discussion 
> so if you don't feel like discussing then you must not make the edit.
> 
> There's scope for widely accepted automatic or mechanical edits. Some 
> guy in Germany removes, I believe, trailing spaces from names - but only 
> in Germany because he hasn't discussed this idea outside. It is also 
> very unlikely that you find someone who objects to e.g. automaticall 
> yreplacing the mis-typed "highway=residentail" with 
> "highway=residential". But even such simple things should, if applied in 
> a wider scope, be discussed beforehand - out of politeless if nothing 
> else, but also to avoid a potential flaw in your reasoning to go undetected.
> 
> Someone once replaced all name=McDonalds with name=McDonald's, arguing 
> that that was the correct name of the fast food chain but accidentally 
> renaming a couple of totall different things that were really called 
> McDonalds. A short discussion beforehand could helped to avoid that mistake.
> 
> Re. your latest point "you don't know what you're doing" - my impression 
> is that your attitude is "I know better anyway", an attitude that is 
> problematic enough in mappers but becomes inacceptable as soon as people 
> make large-scale edits.
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 
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