Thank you Frederik - that's a good way to put it all.
Welcome Rodrigo! You'll find that Frederik's advice fits pretty well
to a common strand of thinking in OpenStreetMap. His advice is
surprising, for many of us joining OSM from an IT background (or even
a Wikipedia background, where automated edits are more widespread).
But please do take some time to think about his advice.
Best wishes
Dan
Op ma 28 sep. 2020 om 10:02 schreef Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>:
>
> Rodrigo,
>
> On 27.09.20 17:28, Rodrigo Díez Villamuera wrote:
> > After some time using OSM as a user, I decided to make my first step as
> > a contributor, hence this email and the proposal inside.
>
> If your first idea of "how to contribute to OSM" is "how to write a
> script that runs an automated edit on the body of OSM data", then
> something is amiss!
>
> The change you plan to execute is of limited use. Yes, it ensures more
> conformity in the data, but it will be a temporary fix (since new
> "wrong" URLs can be added at any time). Anyone consuming OSM data must
> be able to work with URLs that miss a schema, and indeed today any
> browser can do that.
>
> So what your edit does is, it "touches" lots of objects and adds no
> meaningful information whatsoever. It creates load on the database; it
> creates a new version of every object you touch which, informationally
> speaking, is identical to the old version. It produces larger diff
> files, larger history files, and on top of that runs the risk of making
> data look more current than it is ("oh, this pub has last been changed
> by someone two months ago, so surely it will still be in business" when
> in fact the last OSMer who saw that pub with their own eyes did so five
> years ago).
>
> There are many, many better ways to contribute to OSM than runnning a
> useless automated conformity edit. Take a notebook or mobile editor, go
> outside, check if the phone booths on OSM are still there on the ground,
> add a few opening times, or even trees for that matter - a single hour
> of such original work is more useful to OSM that what you are proposing
> here.
>
> Remember: OSM is not an IT project.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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