[OSM-talk] xybot edit area size

[Frank Sautter]

Gregory schrieb:
> Ban bots!!!!!!!!one!!!
one of the keys on your keyboard seems to be stuck ;-)

> I don't really like how they run on the whole world, and not even on
>  a country level. Why are they just editing one node here and there,
>  it could make more programmic sense to download an appropriate-sized
>  area, work through it (doing what ever checks these bots deem 
> important) and then upload the 'corrections' for that area.
again: what should be the size of those "appropriate-sized
areas"?

> This certainly makes it easier if people implement a bots=no on areas
>  to flag that bots should not mess with their turf.
aahh i see, some areas contain only YOUR precious data. is your middle 
name Gollum?

alone xybot is fixing several thousand errors each day, not including 
all the other bots that are active, but they still leave many errors 
behind that could not be fixed by a peace of software...
i'm curious how many errors will show up in http://keepright.ipax.at/ or 
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/ in YOUR "nobot" aera and how many this 
would be if they would not be constantly fixed by all those bots.

frank