[OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

Dave F. davefox at madasafish.com
Sun Sep 27 16:01:42 BST 2009


John Smith wrote:
> This bot:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/BugBuster
>
> Is removing all sorts of tags from ways, including attribution tags,
> can it please be blocked immediately to prevent further damage.
>
>   
Hi John

What are the tags that it/he is wrong to remove?

For my edits, he's doing a good job by removing duplicate nodes from 
ways & removing the created_by tag, which should be used according to 
the wiki

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:created_by

Basically I think he's correcting my mistakes for which I'm grateful.

Cheers
Dave F.





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