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

Rihards richlv at nakts.net
Wed Mar 20 13:59:28 UTC 2019


On 20.03.19 12:14, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> 
> 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.

What use do they see?

> 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").
-- 
 Rihards



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