[OSM-talk] [BOT] [RFC]: water surfaces

[Nicolás Alvarez]

> El 22 mar 2016, a las 10:10, Frank Villaro-Dixon <frank at villaro-dixon.eu> escribió:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I launched a bot (FrankVD_bot) this week which didn't make everyone happy, as it wasn't discussed with the community, which is quite normal. Here's then the RFC for (let's call it) scorpion.
> 
> 
> # Targets
> The targeted zones are actually the multipolygons with natural=water on them. Working box is all the planet.
> 
> # Why ?
> Well, OSM has a quite exhaustive lakes/water surfaces database, but it's a complete pain to work on because:
>    * Some non closed ways have a natural=water or a water=* tag,    which makes no sense and is forbidden.
>    * Attributes (natural, water, name, intermittent) are in the    relation and in the way itself, which is anti normal form (and not logical).
> 
> # First goal:
> First goal is quite simple. The idea is to work only on relations which have a natural=water .  Then, it will:
>    * Delete natural=water from all the ways if they are NOT closed or    ring 0.

What if there is a way legitimately with natural=water that isn't closed because of an error? The correct fix is to close it, not to remove the tag. This cannot be done automatically.