[OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

[Richard]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:13:12PM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> Frederik:
> 
> > I am appalled that after your abysmal OSM editing history where you more
> > often than not ignored existing customs rules, while *claiming* to
> > follow them, you're now building a service that entices others to do the
> > same.
> >
> 
> 
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 6:09 AM Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:
> >> This is a tool to perform automated edits as per the automated edits
> >> policy.  A resposible developer of such a tool should inform its users
> >> that making automated edits comes with certain requirements and that
> >> not following these rules can result in changes being reverted and user
> >> accounts being blocked.
> >>
> >
> 2017-10-14 13:06 GMT+02:00 Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com>:
> 
> > Christoph, I looked around Osmose and MapRoulette, and I don't see any
> > such warnings . Could you elaborate how you would like these kinds of tools
> > to promote good editing practices? Any UI ideas? I'll be happy to improve
> > our tools on making sure they meet community expectations.
> >
> 
> 
> I agree with Christoph and Frederik, that this is oviously a tool to
> perform (crowdsourced) automated edits, and although it is designed in a
> way to make them look like individual contributions, the automated editing
> guidelines should apply. I agree with Yuri that there is also (to some
> lesser extent, as the editing is not performed by the tool) some
> problematic potential in other QA tools like Osmose or "remote batch
> fixing" tools like MapRoulette.

it could be used as an automated editing tool but perhaps this was
not the intention of the author?
Because - if you wanted to do automated editing there are much easier
and quicker methods.

Of course therer are many ways the tool should be improved before it
is used.

Richard