[OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

[edodd at billiau.net]

> John Smith wrote:
>> 2009/9/28 Ruben Wisniewski <ruben at all-in-si.de>:
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> thank you for your report, but whats wrong with moving the tags to a
>>> relation, this is the common way as far as I know, only all ways
>>> together represent the border, so the relation should hold the tags.
>>> Else if there is a change, not every way has to be edited.
>>
>> Because these boundaries were never fully imported so when I add
>> sections of missing boundary I need to re-add the missing tags that
>> were removed and add them to the individual ways again.
>
> If I am reading this thread correctly, I think John's problem is that
> the RELATION is not totally attributed to ABS, and so only those element
> that were imported should be attributed while other unattributed data
> will be added at the relation level? ADDITIONAL ways added to the
> relation that are not from the original import should not be attributed
> to ABS and so a bot that blindly strips information without
> understanding the nature of that data SHOULD NOT BE RUNNING ?
> I can imaging a number of situations where the initial information would
> have a common set of tags that COULD be interpreted as applying to the
> relation level, but then latter additions require all of that 'tidying'
> to be undone manually to put the correct data back :(
> And this seems to be the case here?
>
> --
> Lester Caine - G8HFL

Yes
we need to know what is original ABS data and what is edited data from a
mapper sorting something out.

Please, instead of arguing the point, could the bot be stopped until the
problem is resolved one way or another??

And then, if anyone wants to run automated edits on AU data, we're on
talk-au and willing to discuss things.

Liz