On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:51 PM, andrzej zaborowski <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 August 2010 16:19, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2010/8/27 andrzej zaborowski <[email protected]>: >>>>> I've ...also used bot=yes on many manual edits, >>>> IMHO you shouldn't do this. >>> Why? >> >> because thereby you are flagging them as automated edits which they aren't. > > Perhaps fixbot is highly automated but other than that the "bots" that > run on OSM are hardly ever fully automated, in my experience there's > always some (or a lot of) manual work to do before upload. So the > question is how a bot edit is defined, is it an edit that doesn't > bring in new data, just amends what is already in OSM? Or (what I > actually wanted to propose, but expressed it wrongly) let's use the > flag as meaning "uninteresting" or "likely not the edit you're looking > for". This is the same function that "this is a minor edit" on > wikipedia has.
Then mark your changes as minor edits. And then everyone can ignore the mark, since I see people (especially on the OSM wiki) trying to sneak through changes as "minor" when they are anything but. Really, the problem is not whether or not changes are done by bots or not. The issue is that you want to see what's changed in the particular area - by a human, by a bot, by a human pretending to be a bot, or whatever. That problem is solved by OWL, not by flagging changesets in any way. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
