Thank you Frederik - that's a good way to put it all. Welcome Rodrigo! You'll find that Frederik's advice fits pretty well to a common strand of thinking in OpenStreetMap. His advice is surprising, for many of us joining OSM from an IT background (or even a Wikipedia background, where automated edits are more widespread). But please do take some time to think about his advice.
Best wishes Dan Op ma 28 sep. 2020 om 10:02 schreef Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>: > > Rodrigo, > > On 27.09.20 17:28, Rodrigo Díez Villamuera wrote: > > After some time using OSM as a user, I decided to make my first step as > > a contributor, hence this email and the proposal inside. > > If your first idea of "how to contribute to OSM" is "how to write a > script that runs an automated edit on the body of OSM data", then > something is amiss! > > The change you plan to execute is of limited use. Yes, it ensures more > conformity in the data, but it will be a temporary fix (since new > "wrong" URLs can be added at any time). Anyone consuming OSM data must > be able to work with URLs that miss a schema, and indeed today any > browser can do that. > > So what your edit does is, it "touches" lots of objects and adds no > meaningful information whatsoever. It creates load on the database; it > creates a new version of every object you touch which, informationally > speaking, is identical to the old version. It produces larger diff > files, larger history files, and on top of that runs the risk of making > data look more current than it is ("oh, this pub has last been changed > by someone two months ago, so surely it will still be in business" when > in fact the last OSMer who saw that pub with their own eyes did so five > years ago). > > There are many, many better ways to contribute to OSM than runnning a > useless automated conformity edit. Take a notebook or mobile editor, go > outside, check if the phone booths on OSM are still there on the ground, > add a few opening times, or even trees for that matter - a single hour > of such original work is more useful to OSM that what you are proposing > here. > > Remember: OSM is not an IT project. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > 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