[OSM-talk] Proposed repeated mechanical edit: Empty relations

Paul Norman penorman at mac.com
Tue Jun 24 05:12:47 UTC 2014


I completed the edit without issues.

https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2270 opened for one source. 
JOSM had a few too, but those cover more versions so don't show up at 
the top.

I manually handled relations which had other relations parents, and in 
ever case it was an error of some kind. Most of the parent relations 
themselves had no tags and no other members.


On 2014-06-16 1:17 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
> I'm proposing a regular mechanical edit to remove relations over two 
> days old with no tags, no members, and that are version 1. The reasons 
> for this are hopefully obvious. They should only exist through editor 
> bugs, and contain no data from users of any kind. There are currently 
> 1.4k relations like this.
>
> The technical details are at 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/pnorman#Repeated_empty_relation_cleanup. 
> I've done a similar mechanical edit in the past.
>
> In case of a conflict (another user editing them at the same time) the 
> API will reject the changes and I'll just re-generate the list. I 
> consider this very unlikely, as the only way you can do anything with 
> the relations is to know the machine-generated ID.
>
> Before actually conducting the edit, I want to see what editors were 
> used, and submit bug reports if there's any regular problems.
>
> I'm calling this a regular mechanical edit rather than a bot because 
> it doesn't have the level of automation to be a bot.
>
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