[OSM-talk] Xybot

[Peter Miller]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Miller [mailto:peter.miller at itoworld.com]
> Sent: 24 October 2008 22:38
> To: 'Frank Sautter'; 'talk at openstreetmap.org'
> Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Xybot
> 
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> > Peter Miller schrieb:
> > > 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.
> > thanks for your hint, i've just added a link on this page.
> >
> > > 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.
> > can you please provide some information about that (way id). as far as i
> > can say this should not happen. xybot changed "natural=forest" to
> > "landuse=forest" and yes, wood and forest are not the same.
> >
> 
> As requested...
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/25101370/history
>

My mistake, the bot is forgiven! I have looked again and yes, it was
landuse=wood not natural=wood, and it changed it to landuse=forest. Possibly
changing it to natural=wood would have been more helpful, or indeed to flag
is as possibly needing manual attention by putting something on
OpenStreetBugs, but that is part of the wider bot discussions that I am
staying out of for now.

Thanks for adding the link to the xybot wiki page to the user page; that is
a good step forward.



Peter

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> > frank