[Talk-us] name expansion bot (Re: Imports information on the wiki)

Alan Mintz Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.Net
Fri Feb 17 21:48:35 GMT 2012


At 2012-02-17 12:50, Mike N wrote:
>On 2/17/2012 3:02 AM, Alan Mintz wrote:
>>if the name has been edited by a human, it should not be updated by a
>>bot, or even another human unless they are willing to prove their edit.
>>I've edited thousands of names based on photo surveys and official
>>record research and wouldn't want that high-quality data corrupted.
>
>For myself, I don't know how to determine what the "correct name" would be 
>... if it doesn't match the street sign, I'd be inclined to change it to 
>agree with the sign, unless there's a 'note' tag to other mappers. 
>Similarly, an 'anti-abbreviation-bot' tag would prevent bots from undoing 
>your research.

When I edit, I populate the source and source_ref with the appropriate 
values to cite my source(s) and remove the tiger:reviewed tag if present. 
The fact that the object has been edited by a human should be sufficient to 
keep the bot from touching it.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>




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