Re: [Talk-us] Special issues in LA remap

2012-06-05 Thread Werner Poppele
Charlotte Wolter wrote: Perhaps some who know JOSM could take a look at the most recent uploads by "blars" to see what the effect of reverting those changes would be. At 07:36 PM 6/5/2012, you wrote: It seems we are speaking on many levels here. NE2 talks of a redaction bot: powerful scr

Re: [Talk-us] Special issues in LA remap

2012-06-05 Thread Charlotte Wolter
Perhaps some who know JOSM could take a look at the most recent uploads by "blars" to see what the effect of reverting those changes would be. At 07:36 PM 6/5/2012, you wrote: It seems we are speaking on many levels here. NE2 talks of a redaction bot: powerful scripting so intelligent it

Re: [Talk-us] Special issues in LA remap

2012-06-05 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 5 June 2012 20:56, stevea wrote: > But "socially," or more properly stated, in the context of "reaching OSM > consensus," what does our community think of (rather wholesale) reverts of a > contributor who has not agreed to the CT?  Are we OK with that?  Apologies > if this is already clearly st

Re: [Talk-us] Special issues in LA remap

2012-06-05 Thread stevea
It seems we are speaking on many levels here. NE2 talks of a redaction bot: powerful scripting so intelligent it is not quite yet built (scripting coupled with lack of consensus isn't power). Charlotte, a seriously dedicated user, wants to reduce skull-aching editing, clearly seeing a patter

Re: [Talk-us] Special issues in LA remap

2012-06-05 Thread stevea
Given the earlier statements regarding alignment, etc, of the road vectors, and the seemingly large amount of work to revert these changes, perhaps an incremental replacement of road geometry with TIGER 2011 data along with manual conflation of existing attributes is a more effective applicatio

Re: [Talk-us] Special issues in LA remap

2012-06-05 Thread the Old Topo Depot
Given the earlier statements regarding alignment, etc, of the road vectors, and the seemingly large amount of work to revert these changes, perhaps an incremental replacement of road geometry with TIGER 2011 data along with manual conflation of existing attributes is a more effective application of

Re: [Talk-us] Special issues in LA remap

2012-06-05 Thread Charlotte Wolter
Nathan, Good point, but, in working with his "edits," it seems that not much has been deleted. The problem seems to be what has been added. Charlotte At 01:19 PM 6/5/2012, you wrote: On 6/5/2012 3:42 PM, Mike N wrote: On 6/5/2012 2:56 PM, stevea wrote: But "socially," or more prop

Re: [Talk-us] Special issues in LA remap

2012-06-05 Thread Charlotte Wolter
Steve, Thanks for your thoughts, and I hope others in the community will share their views. My view would be that it should be OK to do such a reverse if the person has not signed the new license, particularly when there has been such an enormous number of questionable edits. I

Re: [Talk-us] Special issues in LA remap

2012-06-05 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/5/2012 3:42 PM, Mike N wrote: On 6/5/2012 2:56 PM, stevea wrote: But "socially," or more properly stated, in the context of "reaching OSM consensus," what does our community think of (rather wholesale) reverts of a contributor who has not agreed to the CT? Are we OK with that? This nearly

Re: [Talk-us] Special issues in LA remap

2012-06-05 Thread Mike N
On 6/5/2012 2:56 PM, stevea wrote: But "socially," or more properly stated, in the context of "reaching OSM consensus," what does our community think of (rather wholesale) reverts of a contributor who has not agreed to the CT? Are we OK with that? This nearly describes what the redaction bot

Re: [Talk-us] Special issues in LA remap

2012-06-05 Thread stevea
I have been working on the LA remap, which mostly involves correcting thousands and thousands of edits by a user named "blars." The odd thing about the "edits" that "blars" did is that they seem to have been done almost robotically. Although many intersections have been changed enough to be ma