[OSM-talk] Xybot

[Frank Sautter]

hello andy,

Andy Allan schrieb:
>> I see that someone is running a bot across the entire planet,
europe

>> I'm asking now for this person to publicly justify to all the 
>> contributors to OpenStreetMap why he or she knows better than they
>> do about tagging?

>> This bot has now effectively blacklisted a number of perfectly 
>> plausible tags, including "annotation", "node", "notice", "remark",
>>  "grade", "track", "water", "automate"  - and has also made some 
>> potentially data-corrupting assumptions.
i checked them on dirk stoeckers tagwatch, before doing this.

>> Take "grade" for instance, all occurances of which have now been 
>> changed to "tracktype". Which is a hell of an assumption about the 
>> use of the "grade" tag, and what people potentially might want to 
>> mark with that in the future. This isn't just typo fixing, this is 
>> going way beyond that.
grade has been replaced by tracktype in 92 occurances on highway=track,
where a numeric value 1-5 was in the value field.

frank