[Talk-us] Proposed automated motorway_link mass edit

[Russ Nelson]

Suddenly top-posting we are why?

On Jul 17, 2009, at 9:29 AM, David Lynch wrote:

> Because I and numerous other mappers have put a hell of a lot of time
> and effort into getting things right, and I don't want anyone breaking
> it because an algorithm assumes it isn't right.

Well, I guess that's an argument for only editing data still owned by  
that DaveHansen character.

I appreciate that you have invested significant time and effort into  
getting a particular area into good shape.  But it seems to me that  
being able to fix 50 times the area you've already edited, at the cost  
of some damage to your area, is something that you would appreciate is  
a good thing.  Or is your concern not the map as a whole, but instead  
the portion of it that you've edited.

>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:15, Russ Nelson<russ at cloudmade.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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?

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