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

[Rodrigo Díez Villamuera]

Thanks for your replies!

Regarding the question of why I am proposing to fix only pubs in this run.
I think it would be good to try this script with a reduced scope of nodes
first before raising a more global conversation. I imagine changesets will
be easy to retrieve and un-do.

Worth mentioning that, for the majority of the nodes affected, the websites
are not incorrect per-se, but they are not URLs because they miss a scheme.
This will cause problems to consumers depending on how they use the field
(I first noticed this issue when passing the :website tag to a third party
library which complained about this)

I ran the script on a local database and I have some numbers:

For a total of 159 :amenity=pub nodes with missing scheme on their :website

- 41 (~26%) can be updated with https as a scheme (safer for the end-user)
- 92 (~58%) don't work on https but http can be added as a scheme
- 26 (~16%) seem to be offline, not accessible neither on http or https
(maybe they can be automatically tagged for fixing? thoughts?)

How do I proceed from here? I have a small subset of nodes to test the
proposal with, I have tried the script locally with good results and I
believe the proposal makes the dataset better for consumers and safer for
end-users by adding an https URL to websites that support it

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Rodrigo Díez Villamuera

w: http://rodrigodiez.io
t: @rodrigodiez_pro
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On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 at 19:38, Andrew Hain <andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk>
wrote:

> Keep Right flags web links that have gone offline.
>
> --
> Andrew
> ------------------------------
> *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 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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