[OSM-talk] Xybot

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Andy has already made the point though that just changing stuff without any
notification is not appropriate at all. Anyone is permitted to tag as they
see fit so you have know way of knowing if someone is using a tag for other
purposes. At a minimum you should be announcing your plans and giving notice
and also in my view only adding new tags, not deleting existing ones.

We have a code of conduct that has evolved over the last few weeks for
automated edits. Wile it is voluntary us data contributors do expect it to
be acknowledged and we would argue used.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Automated_Edits

Cheers

Andy

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Frank Sautter
>Sent: 24 October 2008 12:02 PM
>To: Openstreetmap
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Xybot
>
>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grade has been replaced by tracktype in 92 occurances on highway=track,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
>
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