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

[Andrew Hain]

Keep Right flags web links that have gone offline.

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From: Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>
Sent: 27 September 2020 18:49
To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Hello world and automated change proposal: Add missing URL scheme on UK's Pubs websites

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<http://www.mypub.com> rather than http://www.mypub.com or https://www.mypub.com

This goes in contradiction with the Wiki documentation for website.<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key: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<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits/rodrigodiez/Add_missing_URL_scheme_to_pub_websites_in_UK>.

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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