Hi, On 06/11/2014 01:07 PM, Jochen Topf wrote: > I think the "mechanical edits policy" has stepped over the line here. A > mechanical edit is one where somebody uses a special program that, based on > some simple criteria, does *automatic* changes. Using existing tools like JOSM > and XAPI to find problems, looking at them manually and doing edits, is not a > mechanical edit and should not fall under that policy.
Humans can act mechanically if they disengage their brains enough. > The way you find the > problems is not the criteria that should decide whether an edit is > "mechanical", but the edit itself. Doing a mass edit is not the problem, doing > it blindly is. Yes. It doesn't matter whether the edit is done by a pritive automaton or by a human who behaves like a primitive automaton. > somebody fixing hundreds of typos is not a problem. If that person carefully examines the situation, yes. But is very easy to fix hundreds of "typos" with JOSM oor Level0 *without* examining the situation, basing one's decision solely on the tags that are there and not any background knowledge of the area or a look at aerial imagery or anything else. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
