On Monday 16 October 2017, Marc Gemis wrote: > Would Yuri's tool be OK, if the proposed changes were limited to > objects that were created/last edited after survey to the person that > is using the tool ? > > I was thinking of a scenario where people try to help with a > tag-renaming proposal. > Such a tool would be handy to help them locate all objects that they > know well and retag them.
I think you are missing the point here - this tool's only purpose is doing automated edits. The discussion if and under what circumstances automated edits are OK for the community is not the issue here, this is already regulated by the automated edit policy. Creating a tool for doing automated edits is perfectly fine, but designing it in a way and advertising it in a way that encourages automated edits in ignorance of existing rules is not. You probably recall that we have had discussions in how far Maproulette encourages mechanical edits (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/imagico/diary/40759) but Martijn has always demonstrated he is aware of the problem and tries to avoid such abuse, for example by not allowing anonymous challenges and not having simple click through tasks with already fully predetermined editing decisions. In summary so far i think it can be said developers in the OSM context have overwhelmingly been responsible in the way they design tools in compliance with the spirit of the OSM community. But this one is clearly different in that regard. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
