Thank you. On Sat, 2017-10-07 at 10:55 +0200, Christoph Hormann wrote: > I would be careful interpreting the lack of objections to your > automated > edits in the local community as universal approval though. There > are > likely also locals who do not think this is a good idea but due to > the > low intensity and low volume of edits they don't see it necessary to > say anything.
That's a good point. I'll keep it in mind. It's worth noting I always look at a small sample of changes before hitting the final "upload" button. The bot does not upload fully autonomously. I'm still uncomfortable with a fully automatic bot. This human supervision already proved helpful on several occasions. In one recent case, the bot would have conflicted with Yuri's recent Wiki edits, and the manual supervision caught this and we then coordinated properly: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/51350214 If my bot were fully automatic, it would have annoyed Yuri and interfered with his project without discussion. Worst still, If the two edits were being made by fully automatic bots, a perpetual bot edit war would have possibly ensued. (Depending on the way the bots were coded) As for local particularities, I completely agree. For instance, Israel has a unique case where the "name" tag is always duplicated at "name:he" or "name:ar". A theoretical global bot which removes name/name:lang whenever the values are duplicated would cause local damage and wouldn't be aware of the local conventions, even though such a change may be welcome elsewhere. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
