We often see critics about Bots and import accounts. Should we oppose crafters vs Bots? Who are crafters, who are Bots? I suspect that they often can be the same ;) from the few thousand intensely active OSM contributors. And not all imports or Bots harm our database content. For an informed decision we simply need to know better about these Bots and Imports.
To compile statististices about the OSM Contributors profiles, I am actually going through the http://planet.osm.org/replication/changesets/. Not easy to identify Bots and Imports from the Changesets metadata. Before 2012, there was no specific account for imports. And since 2012, you often have to read the contributors user profile from the OSM API to verify if this is an import account since not all use a prefix or suffix with import. For Bots, you can try to identify the user name that contains words such as Bot, mechanical, repair, fix, etc. But this is relatively imprecise. You can also searh the Changesets metadata to see reference to Bot Edit sessions. If somebody knows a better way to identify Import accounts and Bots, I am interested about that. Pierre De : Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> À : Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de> Cc : "talk@openstreetmap.org" <talk@openstreetmap.org> Envoyé le : lundi 2 octobre 2017 11h17 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] A thought on bot edits I find this discussion and your proposal interesting to explore, at least as a hypothetical. Do we know 1) what the volume of bot edits is and how it has grown 2) how many mappers have actually given up based upon this? My guess is that instead of coming up with a global solution, this could be left to the local communities to decide. For example, where I live (USA) there does not seem to be as much resistance to automated edits to make such a change desirable / necessary. The effect of introducing a new tagging requirement for, or even entirely separating out automated edits into a different database, may have a different (or even an opposite) effect in communities that look more favorably upon these types of edits. Martijn
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