Hi, at the bottom of our MotD it says:
"Remember the golden rules of OpenStreetMap: * Don't copy from other maps * Have fun!" A long time ago I deleted a third item from that list, I think it was something like "always be correct" or "precise" or something that sounded too intimidating. These days, I'm thinking maybe we should add something - namely a reference to our "mechanical edit" guidelines. Almost 100% of all incidents where someone makes large-scale "typo fixes" or other changes (random example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/17462977) involve JOSM, and most of them violate the guidelines because people didn't think about discussing their planned changes. (Our rule is, in a nutshell: If you personally look at every object you change then it's fine; if however you select all objects that have a certain property and then change that globally without even noticing which countries you're editing in then that's a mechanical edit that requires prior discussion to make sure you're not breaking things inadvertently.) Then again, maybe a link to that is too special for most users. Should we instead add another pre-upload check that would say something like "you are uploading a changeset with a very large bounding box, please make sure you conform to the <link> guidelines" (or "you are uploading a very large number of new objects..." since many people seem to use JOSM as an uploader for homemade imports as well). Thoughts? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
