[OSM-talk] Xybot

[Peter Miller]

> 
> >>> 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 grade has been replaced by tracktype in 92 occurances on highway=track,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.
> 
> Where is taking into account this context documented?
> I see no evidence of this on the wiki, are you just saying that so far
> you've been lucky?
> 

On the subject of xybot, I notice that xybot still has a very uninformative
user profile page (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/xybot) which just says
"Xylome's robot account".

On Xylome's page (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/xylome) it says "mapping
by bike in Schönbuch-clearance near Stuttgart, Germany. Initiator of several
feature proposals. Protagonist of tracktype. Programmer of xybot a janitor
robot that repairs obvious missspelling of tags."

The only link from this page is one back to the xybot user page and there is
no link to the bot's page itself (is there one?) to provide information
about what the bot is doing and why and what one should do if one disagrees
with the edits.

Btw, I have had xybot turning "natural=wood" into "landuse=forest". Where I
come from a wood and forest are not the same thing at all.


Peter(Ito)