[OSM-talk] Xybot

[Andy Allan]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Frank Sautter
<openstreetmap at sautter.com> wrote:
> 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 grade has been replaced by tracktype in 92 occurances on highway=track,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

I don't think you answered any of my questions.

Thanks,
Andy