2017-01-09 12:40 GMT+00:00 Jez Nicholson <jez.nichol...@gmail.com>: > has there ever been discussion about code branching in OSM? In git terms, we > are all making changes direct to master. I'm wondering whether small changes > could be automatically approved and large changes would require peer review > first. I know that this is a huge change to the base infrastructure
Yes there has been discussion of this, but not on talk-gb because talk-gb isn't really the place for it ;) It's a very difficult idea to convert osm to a "branching" data model, because of some awkward issues such as universal identifiers for objects and versions. But! There has been some work on an interesting project which sort-of enables branching-and-merging, in the HOT world: https://hi.stamen.com/merging-offline-edits-with-the-posm-replay-tool-2f39a4410d2a > so maybe a bot > that auto-challenges large/sweeping changes? I think we pretty much already have this, thanks to various monitoring tools (recently, OSMCHA - very helpful), except that the "bot" is the community. > ....or is this like in QI when the siren goes off because someone proposes > something that has is a commonly held fallacy? or been discussed ad nauseam Best not to discourage people who are coming "new to old ideas" imho, though talk-gb's not the ideal venue so I'd suggest using a dev forum... Dan > - Jez > > On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 at 12:29 ael <law_ence....@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 11:53:51AM +0000, SK53 wrote: >> > Somehow I have been oblivious to the fact that large numbers of polygons >> > tagged natural=heath have been added over the past few months to OSM. >> >> >> I too have encountered at least one armchair mapper who (in my view) >> incorrectly tagged large areas of Bodmin moor with this nonsense. >> I changed this rubbish in the areas that I have directly surveyed, but >> did not think that I should override another mapper who clearly had >> spent a lot of effort in adjacent areas without consultation. >> >> I first noticed this problem several months ago: I cannot remember >> whether I tried to contact the mapper to ask what was happening. >> >> I have had other instances of armchair mappers adding what I regard as >> very dubious landuse tags to areas that I have extensively surveyed. >> When I contacted one of the main offenders; I didn't get a very helpful >> response. >> >> Anyway, I suspect that this is a problem over large areas. >> >> ael >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
