[OSM-talk] Unauthorized mechanical edit - changeset 11913785 - amenity=airport->aeroway=aerodrome

colliar colliar4ever at aol.com
Sun Jun 17 15:30:40 BST 2012


On 17/06/12 12:38, bruno wrote:
> Hi!
>   without too much thinking and without discussing it (and without
> reading the wiki) I made a worldwide mechanical edit
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/11913785
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/White_Rabbit
> 
> I modified 1120 elements which had the amenity=airport tag:
> * those which already had aeroway=* were just stripped of
> amenity=airport and the aeroway=* was left untouched;
> * those elements with just amenity=airport and no aeroway=* were
> stripped of of amenity=airport and added aeroway=aerodrome.
> 
> I have the old version of the nodes [1].
> I'm sorry for the mess :-|
> What do we do?
> 
> /bruno
> 
> [1] http://tracciabi.li/~bruno/av/amenity-airport.osm

Thanks for telling.

The problem with reverting is that it gets more difficult while time
passes. This means right now it might be easy to revert as there were
not many changes after your edit.

I had a quick look at your change set and found some ways in South Korea
which have "School" in their names and seem to be school (e.g. way
id:129601385) . At least for these cases your edit did not fix anything !

There was/is lots of discussion on this mailing list regarding
mechanical edits. Have a look at:

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2012-May
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2012-June

Overall instead of mechanical edits you can also make semi-automatic
edits and ask the community to help if it is too much work.

Considering your 1120 elements it should not be hard to find some people
to help and finding/downloading these objects should be easy thanks to
the overpass-api.

It is your decision but you will probably gain more friends by reverting
and making more careful mechanical edits including reporting about it in
advance.

Cheers
colliar

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