[OSM-talk] Xybot

Simon Ward simon at bleah.co.uk
Tue Oct 28 01:02:53 GMT 2008


On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:28:45PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 04:36:30PM +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote:
> > They certainly lend themselves to it. That's not to say it's a good idea.
> > The vast majority of these things could be done instead with a much
> > less intrusive auto bug-notification-system. ie:  a big list somewhere
> > telling you of all the higways; then someone can actually go and check
> > to see whether there is another highway there, or if things aren't
> > connected properly, or whether someone has attached a "note=this
> > really is a way for Higs and not a misspelled highway" tag.
> 
> I am in favour of feeding these kinds of bugs into OpenStreetBugs -

or the maplint layer.  I haven’t used it much personally because of the
already large amount of false positives such as not in map features,
maybe it could present these less‐obtrusively, or allow some “errors” to
be ignored.

Simon
-- 
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.—John Gall
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