[OSM-talk] When will bots be removed from history?

[Valent Turkovic]

On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:04:23 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Having a "bot flag" would be good for a number of reasons but your
> problem would not be solved by that. In my opinion this is not something
> we can do in the API (personally I think the "history" tab on the web
> page was a big mistake, I would never have put it there). But it could
> be done on a third party site. Why not implement it?
> 
> A little better coding quality on the bot programmers' side would also
> help. It would not be too hard to split up their changes so as to not
> create changesets spanning 100s of square kilometres.

As I'm not a programmer and can't help in implementing this feature in 
any third party site I can only try to speak with bot programmers and ask 
if it is possible not to span so vast areas.

Thank you for your answer.

ps. it is a pitty that its not possible to implement bot flag :(


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