[OSM-talk] When two bots go to war

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Fri Sep 15 11:30:44 UTC 2023


Hi,

aside from these apparently being undocumented bot edits, I'm also 
somewhat skeptical of their "healthcare:speciality" tag. It sounds 
terribly like advertising. It essentially covers everything you would 
expect a dentist to do - so why is healthcare=dentist not sufficient?

Bye
Frederik

On 15.09.23 11:43, Paul Norman wrote:
> They have edited it back with 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/141281494. I've left a changeset 
> discussion comment asking why, and asking for a link to the required 
> documentation and consultation.
> 
> On 2023-09-14 12:36 a.m., Cj Malone wrote:
>> On Tue, 2023-09-12 at 15:06 +0200, Snusmumriken via talk wrote:
>>> My speculation is that Distriktstandvården (a chain of dental
>>> clinics)
>>> has taken "ownership" of "their" nodes and once a day check that the
>>> values in osm database correspond to that of their internal database.
>> I've added a more specific website tag to test this. If they restore it
>> (Probably 03:00) to the generic home page I agree with you. They need
>> to be informed that 1) there data needs improving (eg covid opening
>> hours, POI specific not brand specific contact details) 2) they don't
>> own these nodes, other people can edit them.
>>
>> CJ
>>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/141243391
>>
>>
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