Recently we have been having a problem with several users doing mechanical edits to add the prefix "ON" to the ref of every highway in Ontario. The Canadian OSM community is unhappy with this.
I admit that I have been guilty of doing inappropriate mechanical edits in the past, but I am wondering: is it time that OSM implements controls on doing mechanical edits in the API? In other words, should OSM implement a feature in the API that bans doing edits over a certain size (perhaps 5 degrees latitude or 5 degrees longitude, with larger amounts of longitude allowed near the north and south pole as this would make editing there impossible otherwise), with exceptions for administrators/designated users? Would this cause so much of a problem for legitimate users that this is a bad idea? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
