[OSM-talk] A thought on bot edits

Yves yvecai at gmail.com
Mon Oct 2 17:54:36 UTC 2017


Actually, if you find the way to keep a db handling a property (or tag) of OSM element in sync with OSM, you have solved the need for UID. And if you happen to do so without UID or API change , it's very nice ! 


Le 2 octobre 2017 15:59:48 GMT+02:00, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> a écrit :
>
>With all the recent endeavors to push more automated edits in OSM and 
>with the related rules and policies clearly failing (just look at 
>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Automated_edits_log and 
>compare that to what is actually taking place in terms of automated 
>edits these days) i just had the idea that it might be a lot easier and
>
>better if we replace all current regulations of automated edits with a 
>simple rule:
>
>Automated edits of any kind may freely add or edit tags with keys 
>starting with 'bot:' but may not under any circumstances touch any 
>other tags.
>
>This way people could go crazy bot editing whatever they want in that 
>namespace but would not interfere with manual mapping activity and data
>
>consumers could choose freely if the want bot edited information and if
>
>they do if they want to give it priority over manually verified data.  
>And mappers could configure their editors to hide the bot tags if they 
>are not interested in them.
>
>Of course considering the big volume of editing activity that would 
>likely take place in the 'bot:' namespace in that scenario it might be 
>a good idea to put those tags into a separate database for efficiency 
>reasons.
>
>-- 
>Christoph Hormann
>http://www.imagico.de/
>
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