With all the recent endeavors to push more automated edits in OSM and with the related rules and policies clearly failing (just look at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Automated_edits_log and compare that to what is actually taking place in terms of automated edits these days) i just had the idea that it might be a lot easier and better if we replace all current regulations of automated edits with a simple rule:
Automated edits of any kind may freely add or edit tags with keys starting with 'bot:' but may not under any circumstances touch any other tags. This way people could go crazy bot editing whatever they want in that namespace but would not interfere with manual mapping activity and data consumers could choose freely if the want bot edited information and if they do if they want to give it priority over manually verified data. And mappers could configure their editors to hide the bot tags if they are not interested in them. Of course considering the big volume of editing activity that would likely take place in the 'bot:' namespace in that scenario it might be a good idea to put those tags into a separate database for efficiency reasons. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
