On Monday 27 May 2019, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > > > it seems clear to me that any tool that leads mappers to > > unconsciously perform automated edits could and should be blocked > > from write access to the API and accordingly should not be > > available on osm.org. > > I guess that in cases where it's a widely accepted community decision > instead of "fuck you stinking mailing list pseudo community, I'll do > what I please and anyway my friends all like it", it can be > acceptable. AFAIK many editors for example silently drop "created-by" > and didn't hear anyone complain about that.
There is of course a difference between silently dropping obsolete tags evidently containing no geographic information when editing a feature anyway and actively modifying features the mapper has not touched in their fundamental semantics. As already hinted i know too little about how iD works to specifically say something about how it fits in here. I don't think a mechanical edit should be considered acceptable without discussion because it is obviously beneficial. If that is the case the discussion can be short but it still should happen - if for no other reason than as a safety check to avoid errors. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
