[Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Mar 21, 2019, 3:29 PM by m at rtijn.org:

> The benefit is that it gives mappers a reason to examine places - not just the disappeared feature itself but also the area around it - that would otherwise go unexamined. Since we have so much unexamined space in the U.S., any opportunity to spark mappers’ curiosity about some of that space, is a welcome trigger. 
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> It may feel like a time sink for some, but my hope is that others will feel it’s an interesting exercise to improve the map. 
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I think that existing issues detected by say Osmose are more than enough to encourage fixing stuff.

http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/ <http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/> has massive amount of things to fix, even in well 
mapped areas.

Willing mappers are bottleneck, so whenever rare of bot-fixable
problems happens I think that it is a good idea to use it and spend human mapping time
on something more useful.

And if there is any danger of any area in USA running out of Maproulette or Osmose tasks - 
let me know and I will create something.

Especially Wikipedia-related one, as side effect of my project of finding tourism attractions
based on OSM data I created validator detecting various issues with wikipedia and wikidata tasks,
if anyone is interested I may run it for some part of USA.

> Stepping back a bit, the urge to fix previous automated edits with new automated fixes is understandable, but it may lead to a more casual approach to imports and automated edits, because we basically say with each fix that ill-informed automated map edits can always be fixed with more automated edits later. We’ve already gone down that path in the U.S. quite far, so we should proceed with extra care - unless we as a community decide that that is the nature of OSM in this country. It isn’t to me.
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I fully support proper discussion before doing automatic changes, especially on larger scale and
ones that will delete items making them harder to reverse.

And I would be really irritated if someone would use this automatic edit proposal to 
support "my edit requires no discussion, after all sooner or later someone will fix my mess".

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