Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-28 Thread edodd
2009/9/28 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk: And this seems to be the case here? The problem is the ways are the best place to tag the ABS information, and the ABS data just happens to follow rivers, islands, railways and roads and so on which is very useful where people can't survey and

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Pieren
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:59 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: This bot: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/BugBuster Is removing all sorts of tags from ways, including attribution tags, can it please be blocked immediately to prevent further damage. Did you read this:

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread John Smith
2009/9/27 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: Maybe he plans another extra run later. If you want to contact him to know more about his work, do it. I emailed him when I emailed the list, but no reply yet. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Dave F.
John Smith wrote: This bot: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/BugBuster Is removing all sorts of tags from ways, including attribution tags, can it please be blocked immediately to prevent further damage. Hi John What are the tags that it/he is wrong to remove? For my edits, he's

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread John Smith
2009/9/28 Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com: What are the tags that it/he is wrong to remove? ABS imported data was stripped from ways and moved to a relation which is incorrect, I fixed a couple manually but I don't know how many more times this has happened.

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Dave F.
John Smith wrote: 2009/9/28 Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com: What are the tags that it/he is wrong to remove? ABS imported data was stripped from ways and moved to a relation which is incorrect, I fixed a couple manually but I don't know how many more times this has happened.

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Matthias Versen
John Smith wrote: What are the tags that it/he is wrong to remove? ABS imported data was stripped from ways and moved to a relation which is incorrect, I fixed a couple manually but I don't know how many more times this has happened. Please post an example changeset where this bot did

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread John Smith
2009/9/28 Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com: Excuse my ignorance, what's ABS? Australian Bureau of Statistics, they've donated a large data set of postcode/suburb and other administrative boundaries. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread John Smith
2009/9/28 Matthias Versen s...@mversen.de: Please post an example changeset where this bot did something wrong. I've already fixed the mistakes I've found so far, but I don't know how many other mistakes there are. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Dave F.
John Smith wrote: 2009/9/28 Matthias Versen s...@mversen.de: Please post an example changeset where this bot did something wrong. I've already fixed the mistakes I've found so far, but I don't know how many other mistakes there are. Could you post a link to those please? We can

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread John Smith
2009/9/28 Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com: Could you post a link to those please? We can still see the errors within the history. I've made a lot of edits today, this is one of the relations I deleted and I had to retag the ways: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/253976/history

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Ruben Wisniewski
Hi John, thank you for your report, but whats wrong with moving the tags to a relation, this is the common way as far as I know, only all ways together represent the border, so the relation should hold the tags. Else if there is a change, not every way has to be edited. Btw: The bot was not

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Matthias Versen
Ruben Wisniewski wrote: Hi John, thank you for your report, but whats wrong with moving the tags to a relation, this is the common way as far as I know, only all ways together represent the border, so the relation should hold the tags. Else if there is a change, not every way has to be

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Lennard
Matthias Versen wrote: A border-way should contain admin_level=X where X is the highest number of the border it represents and an boundary=administrative Tag. Lowest -- Lennard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread John Smith
2009/9/28 Ruben Wisniewski ru...@all-in-si.de: Hi John, thank you for your report, but whats wrong with moving the tags to a relation, this is the common way as far as I know, only all ways together represent the border, so the relation should hold the tags. Else if there is a change, not

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread John Smith
2009/9/28 Matthias Versen s...@mversen.de: Ruben Wisniewski wrote: Hi John, thank you for your report, but whats wrong with moving the tags to a relation, this is the common way as far as I know, only all ways together represent the border, so the relation should hold the tags. Else if

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Matthias Versen
Lennard wrote: Matthias Versen wrote: A border-way should contain admin_level=X where X is the highest number of the border it represents and an boundary=administrative Tag. Lowest Correct, my mistake. I meant the highest importance which is the lowest number. Matthias

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Matthias Versen
John Smith wrote: These aren't state borders these are administrative borders (postcodes, town etc), and I'm filling in missing sections manually to complete postcodes as these weren't imported manually, as a result the relation isn't correct, each section of the way needs to be tagged with

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread John Smith
2009/9/28 Matthias Versen s...@mversen.de: John Smith wrote: These aren't state borders these are administrative borders (postcodes, town etc), and I'm filling in missing sections manually to complete postcodes as these weren't imported manually, as a result the relation isn't correct, each

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
John Smith wrote: 2009/9/28 Ruben Wisniewski ru...@all-in-si.de: Hi John, thank you for your report, but whats wrong with moving the tags to a relation, this is the common way as far as I know, only all ways together represent the border, so the relation should hold the tags. Else if there

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread John Smith
2009/9/28 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk: And this seems to be the case here? The problem is the ways are the best place to tag the ABS information, and the ABS data just happens to follow rivers, islands, railways and roads and so on which is very useful where people can't survey and there is

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread edodd
John Smith wrote: 2009/9/28 Ruben Wisniewski ru...@all-in-si.de: Hi John, thank you for your report, but whats wrong with moving the tags to a relation, this is the common way as far as I know, only all ways together represent the border, so the relation should hold the tags. Else if there

Re: [OSM-talk] Bot removing attribution tags

2009-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
John Smith wrote: 2009/9/28 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk: And this seems to be the case here? The problem is the ways are the best place to tag the ABS information, and the ABS data just happens to follow rivers, islands, railways and roads and so on which is very useful where people