[Talk-GB] Hello world and automated change proposal: Add missing URL scheme on UK's Pubs websites

[Philip Barnes]

On Sun, 2020-09-27 at 16:28 +0100, Rodrigo Díez Villamuera wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> First of all, I would like to introduce myself on this email list and
> to thank you all for your contributions to OSM. Great work!
> 
> After some time using OSM as a user, I decided to make my first step
> as a contributor, hence this email and the proposal inside.
> 
> Please bear in mind that this is my first attempt to contribute with
> a proposal and, although I have done my best reading the community
> conventions and best practices, I am sure I have made some mistakes
> on the way. Be merciful! :P
> 
> To the point now.
> 
> I am importing a subset of nodes from UK (those tagged with
> amenity:pub) for a pet project.
> 
> When analysing the data I realised that some of these nodes contain a
> website: tag that does not contain an appropriate URL schema
> (http/https).
> 
> Ie: www.mypub.com rather than http://www.mypub.com or 
> https://www.mypub.com
> 
> This goes in contradiction with the Wiki documentation for website.
> 
> I created a proposal for a one-off, scoped, automated edit for these
> nodes to find the appropiate scheme for the existing URL and retag
> the nodes.
> 
> I added the proposal to the Automated edits log. You can read it
> here.
> 
> Just wanted to share the proposal with the UK community, gather your
> feedback, comments and advises on how to proceed from here
> 
One issue I can think of with pubs and websites is that they need
checking to ensure they are still current. 

The defacto method most pubs use to communicate with customers is
facebook.

A more general fix of urls missing http(s)://, why only pubs?.  is
probably a maproulette quest.

Phil (trigpoint)


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