[OSM-talk-ie] Mass edits

[Marc Gemis]

You could e.g. select them all in JOSM and edit them in one go. Or
write an Overpass query to download only certain data.

But since you are not inspecting them one-by-one, you are performing a
mechanical edit and have to follow
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct


m.

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 4:50 AM, Colm Moore <colmmoore72 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Tidying up some addresses, I have a 47 entries where:
>
> * addr:city=Offaly
>
> * addr:housenumber=Shinrone
> * addr:street=Roscrea Road
>
> Where addr:city should be addr:county and addr:housenumber should be addr:city. Let's ignore for the moment that the Roscrea Road name is questionable at the Roscrea end.
>
> Similarly, I have:
> * addr:city=Swords, Co. Dublin (174) - space
> * addr:city=Swords, Co.Dublin (108) - no space
>
> They should all really be addr:city=Swords and addr:county=Dublin or at a minimum, they should be the same.
>
> Fixing these manually is fine when there are only a few, but what is the simplest way of rectifying these types of errors when there are dozens or hundreds?
>
>
> Colm
>
>
>
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