[Talk-us] Imports information on the wiki
Mike N
niceman at att.net
Wed Jan 4 12:25:36 GMT 2012
On 1/3/2012 7:59 PM, the Old Topo Depot wrote:
> Certainly inconsistency appears in any large dataset that's touched by a
> large number of editors. I don't see why expecting contributors to try
> to comply with reasonable data entry/quality guidelines is unreasonable.
> JOSM has a suite of validity checkers to try to
> apply constancy guidelines to new/edited data. Why might running
> clean-up bots antagonize mappers (particularly if their updates can be
> filtered from edit lists ;-)) any more than validation checks before
> updates ?
I don't think the bots themselves will antagonize mappers except for
2 possible cases:
1 - A mapper abbreviates an already expanded name, and doesn't like
the style change because name no longer renders in Mapnik at a certain
zoom, etc.
2 - The edge cases where the abbreviated name is the official name
and cannot be expanded. Would this need a special tag to tell the bot
that the name is correct?
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