[OSM-talk] iD news: v1.9.6 released

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> Il giorno 18 giu 2016, alle ore 03:44, Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> ha scritto:
> 
> I'm familiar with our guidelines on automatic edits, but I find it a stretch
> to apply them here. iD is essentially inserting an alternative, more stable
> representation of a title the mapper specifically chose. This is no more
> automatic than an editor silently deleting TIGER tags upon touching a node,
> filling in the `source` tag of a changeset based on the imagery layers used,
> or stripping spaces after semicolons in tags.


I think wikidata objects are somehow more serious than Wikipedia articles, because the latter require interpretation with a grain of salt, while wikidata appears to be mathematically precise descriptions of things and the relationship between them. This difference is way bigger than spaces or not after semicolons, or the removal of meaningless or redundant tags (tiger), as we have seen there are substantial differences on a semantic level.


cheers,
Martin