[OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

Wed Nov 8 18:43:09 UTC 2017

Thanks Mikel, very well put.

There are currently hundreds of deprecated features & JOSM validations,
with hundreds of thousands of instances. They seem to be good candidates
for community reviewing and fixing. Some of them have been there for over
10 years without being addressed. Setting up a bot to do them may cause
more problems than solving, but the Sophox tasks should help. Reviewing
each change one by one should help spot cases when the change should NOT
happen, and either be fixed manually, or the Sophox query needs changing.
Sophox tags each changset with a task ID, so it will be very easy to undo
in case of a wide-scale error.  This makes Sophox much safer than when
multiple types of changes are combined in the same changeset.

I have copied some of the JOSM & deprecation autofixes as Sophox tasks
(quick fixes page). Which of them would be good for the first review? It
should probably be more obvious, like replacing identical
maxspeed:forward+maxspeed:backward with maxspeed tag, or removing layer=0,
etc.

* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Quick_fixes

Thanks!

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel.maron at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone -- let's do stick to the topic at hand. My takeaways from the
> good points on the discussion here from Frederik and Yuri.
>
> * It's ok to have different points of view
> * Being respectful of each other is important. Very important
> * Let's not make disagreements personal
>
> Online communication is hard. We are missing all the context and cues from
> real life. Let's make an extra effort to get beyond the inevitable
> miscommunications when they crop up.
>
> -Mikel
>
> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 <(415)%20283-5207> @mikel s:mikelmaron
>
>
> On Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 4:32:42 AM EST, Yuri Astrakhan <
> yuriastrakhan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> TLDR; Please read my previous email, and lets discuss the actual tool, its
> capabilities, and how it can fit and add value to OSM ecosystem, while
> minimizing potential negatives.
>
> Frederik, I have offered to have a direct video conversation with you to
> better understand your concerns, explain my goals, and bring it back into
> productive scope, but no luck yet. I still hope you are more interested in
> resolving our differences than having a public tribune.  Lets not spend
> hours on emails, but try to understand each other's concerns in a private
> conversation, without involving the entire world.  I am sure what you think
> I am trying to do is substantially different from what I actually am trying
> to do, and my understanding of your concerns is also different from your
> actual concerns.
>
> If there is a large group of people who are trying to do something
> different from your strongly held believes, it means they have a problem
> you might not be aware about. In your example, "kick foreigners out" is a
> symptom of a problem - possibly related to people's insecurity or lack of
> education. Vilifying them and calling their ideas outrageous makes us feel
> righteous and united, but does not solve the actual problem or changes what
> they think - it actually exacerbates it, because both sides become more
> entrenched in their believes.
>
> So yes, I do want to keep our conversation constructive (not positive!) -
> understand concerns on all sides, and provide the most value to everyone
> involved.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 2:57 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 07.11.2017 07:29, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
> > Please keep discussion to constructive suggestions and ideas - they help
> > us all move forward and reach agreement.
>
> I have a general remark about statements like the above, that is not
> related to your specific tool.
>
> Statements like this are aimed at silencing opposition. But that is
> neither fair, nor right, nor a good way for a community to move forward.
> Opposition must be allowed, and people who are in opposition must not be
> cast as "negative" (="bad").
>
> Just imagine if someone suggested something outrageous ("Let's deport
> all foreigners from or village") and then if someone says "no", they are
> told: "Please keep discussion to constructive suggestions and ideas".
> ("If you have a better idea on how to get rid of foreigners, we're all
> ears!")
>
> There are many ideas that are broken beyond repair, where the basic
> tenets are already so wrong that no constructive suggestion can ever
> make it good. Rejecting such ideas is good, and a valuable contribution.
>
> Please don't try to silence opposing voices by limiting discussion to
> "constructive suggestions".
>
> As I said, this is not aimed specifically at you; I think the last time
> I said it was in a discussion about a tree import where the importers
> asked critics to simply take their energy elsewhere instead of being
> "negative" about the import.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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