On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Nic Roets <nro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Matt Amos <zerebub...@gmail.com> wrote: >> so... frequently running bots over entire countries to change the >> speed limit, or adding (by my count) about 20 million new tags to the >> DB, or dealing with inconsistencies between different editors, etc... >> that doesn't hold any water? > > We already have bots changing so many things. And some of them irritate me > immensely.
and you want *more*? > But they are forcing me to align my tagging style to the rest of > the community. as you say, sometimes moderate bot activity can have good side-effects, but i don't want to get into a position where we rely on bots to do editing tasks. think about it this way; if you had a huge file and you needed to replace every one of 20 million instances of one word with another - the first time you'd use sed (or some regexp-replace in your editor). the second time too. when it got to the tenth time you might wonder whether it would have been better to replace the word with a variable (entity reference / #define / whatever) and push the lookup work from the producer to the consumer. > Do you have any idea how many "tiger:" tags are already in the database ? yes: 629,644,961. its shocking and horrible. maybe we should run a bot to delete them? especially the ones on the nodes - they're really annoying. > If there inconsistencies between editors, then there disputes in the > community that needs to be resolved. there are bound to be. the editors may get fixed and a bot run to harmonise the tags. but soon they'll get out of sync again and the bots come out again. cheers, matt _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
