Hi All, I see that someone is running a bot across the entire planet, and I don't see any discussion of it on the mailing lists. The bot is called "xybot" and the user is apparently "xylome" http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/xylome - I believe this is the same person who Frederik was referring to on a previous thread.
I'm asking now for this person to publicly justify to all the contributors to OpenStreetMap why he or she knows better than they do about tagging? This bot has now effectively blacklisted a number of perfectly plausible tags, including "annotation", "node", "notice", "remark", "grade", "track", "water", "automate" - and has also made some potentially data-corrupting assumptions. Take "grade" for instance, all occurances of which have now been changed to "tracktype". Which is a hell of an assumption about the use of the "grade" tag, and what people potentially might want to mark with that in the future. This isn't just typo fixing, this is going way beyond that. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User_FixTypo3Euro:Xybot http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:Xybot Who are you xylome, and what makes you think you're allowed to do this without asking? What other announced and undiscussed changes are you planning for the future? Thanks, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
