I like the "bot=no" flag, or a more specific one for a given field - "name:en:bot=no" - as long as those flags are not added by a bot :)
Would it make sense, judging how wikidata* tags have been mostly auto-added by iD, as well as user's bot efforts, including my own, to treat wikidata explicitly as a bot tag? In a way, it is already being treated as such by many - why not make it official? On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 4:55 AM Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de> wrote: > On Tuesday 03 October 2017, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > Did your proposal also extend to geoemtries? You said something about > > bot:* tags, but if a bot were to orthogonalize an existing building, > > would it then have to create a copy of that tagged > > "bot:building=yes"? And how could that be differentiated from a > > building that originally had building=YES and the bot only lowercased > > the tag value? > > My original idea was only about tags but it could be extended to > geometries of course - as i sketched in my reply to Martin, which would > essentially mean creating a copy for the building a bot orthogonalizes > if the building already has a manual building=yes tag. If the bot only > changes the tag the building would remain a normal hand mapped geometry > but would get a bot:building=yes in addition to the building=YES. > > Of course duplicating geometry data would make it much more difficult > for data users to make decisions about selectively using data and it > would make it much more difficult for editors to allow mappers to edit > the data correctly. This is why i originally suggested this only for > tags - after all the vast majority of bot edits are tag modifications > only, geometry edits by bots are technically much more complicated to > do right so they happen less frequently. > > As already said - if this approach is not considered favorably it is > always possible to use the other method and forbid bots to touch > anything with a bot=no tag and thereby allow mappers to opt out of bot > edits on a case-by-case basis. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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