[Talk-us] Proposed automated motorway_link mass edit

[Russ Nelson]

On Jul 17, 2009, at 8:27 AM, David Lynch wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:10, Russ Nelson<russ at cloudmade.com> wrote:
>>  An even more aggressive fix would be to
>> disconnect everything that isn't a motorway_link.  That's probably
>> correct, but more aggressive than I would choose to implement.
>
> Not a good idea at all, IMO. I can think of numerous places within 50
> miles of my home where, due to existing highways being upgraded to
> motorway or towns being bypassed by freeway/motorway-grade highway,
> there are nodes which have bo

When an automated edit can fix 98% of things that are wrong, breaks 1%  
of things that are correct, and falsely fixes 1% things that didn't  
need fixing, is it good or bad?

My feeling is ZOMG!  Let's DO IT, NOW, but I think that you may  
disagree, and I'm wondering why you would.

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