[Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove is_in:continent in USA

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Mar 20, 2019, 9:21 AM by frederik at remote.org:

> Mateusz,
>
> as far as I am concerned, *all* is_in tags are unnecessary at best and
> potentially misleading, and could be removed. I'd prefer adding these
> tags to the auto remove list in editors though, rather than running
> mechanical edits to remove them.
>
Unfortunately there are some people that see value in keeping some 
of them, that is also reason why this edit is proposed only for
one that is utterly broken.

I was not considering auto remove list before, I will think about it
and maybe I will propose adding it to a delete list of JOSM and iD
(maybe also Vespucci if it has one).

For "prefer" - is it "against automated edit" or "against automated 
edit if auto remove list would be rejected" or "some other solution
would be better but automated edit is acceptable"?

>
> I strongly object to doing this in a *recurring* fashion for two reasons:
>
OK, I will drop recurring part. Documented:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/remove_is_in:continent_in_USA&diff=1823334&oldid=1823287


> If you intend to run a bot like that in regular intervals
> (which I would recommend not to do), then you need to provide a
> mechanism for individual mappers to ask the bot to keep its hands off
> something ("matkoniecz:bot=no" or so).
>
So far nobody requested it (there is opt-out section in documentation on wiki
that explicitly mentions it as a possibility), but I would implement it probably by
skipping objects ever edited by specific user (would require making
one more call before editing each object).

Certainly I would not require adding pointless tags to OSM database
(this would be ridiculous especially as most my bot edits are "this tag should be
gone as it is pointless/confusing").

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