[OSM-talk] Code of conduct for automated (mass-) edits

[Matthias Julius]

"Nic Roets" <nroets at gmail.com> writes:

> To get back to the issue of a bot running in a specific country : Let's say
> the vast majority of occurrences of Strasse are spelling mistakes and let's
> say there are a few occurrences of Strasse where it is not a spelling
> mistake, like a surname. Should we run the bot ?

No, I don't think so.  Everybody can make mistakes and just not know
about ligitimate use of a 'misspelling'.  But I don't think one should
just accept a couple of false positives and say "It was only 0.1%".

If you can not train your bot to omit all known false positives have
it just fix the errors you are absolutely certain about and put the
rest on a list on the web somwhere and ask the community to have a
look at it.

Matthias