On Wednesday 04 January 2017, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: > > Well - in OSM use of and reliance on this expensive resource is the > > core of the whole project and we use automated edits only when they > > are deemed desirable by the expensive humans on a per case basis. > > I agree with this idea completely. At the same time it is so easy to > check if a Wikipedia page actually exists programmatically [1] while > a mapper ads a wikipedia=* tag. Certainly, it a bit more complicated > in the JOSM as it may be used offline. But in any case, why to check > it manually? It is a kind of a routine task which could be done by a > machine.
It is not the check that needs to be manual, it is the edit. In other words: finding errors can often be automatized to a high degree with good reliability - just look at the OSM Inspector coastline and area views which are very useful for the community. Fixing them is something where a manual approach with local knowledge is considered desirable by most mappers though. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
