[OSM-talk] Could we have a bot please to remove duplicates.

[Rory McCann]

The OSM API has a way to (sorta) detect/prevent 2 people editing the same object at the same time, that's what conflicts are! 🙂

However (correct me if I'm wrong) there's currently nothing in the API for "half uploaded" things like that, and I believe editor software developers have talked about it. Maybe in API v0.7?... 😛

On Fri, 29 Jan 2021  0:41, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Somehow we have duplicates in the database that look very much as if 
> the same information has been uploaded twice.  Probably by users 
> exiting iD before it has changed the status flag on the uploaded items.
> 
> If the tags are the same and the points are the same and it is the same 
> user on both I think it would be reasonable to delete one of them by 
> bot.
> 
> Numbers, I've just cleaned up more than a couple of hundred buildings 
> in Niger.  I think another mapper mentioned they had cleaned up over a 
> hundred.  Picking them out manually can be done but I think a bot would 
> be better in this instance as you need a certain amount of expertise to 
> pick them out manually and I'm quite certain that the mappers with the 
> expertise to do it could be better employed doing something else.
> 
> I am aware of the hesitancy to allow automated edits and there is a 
> political aspect to this.
> 
> I'm not sure who should be responsible for creating or running the bot.
> 
> Thoughts
> 
> Thanks John
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