On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote: > 3) The road to hell in OSM is paved with bot intentions. > > OSM has a long, negative history with bots. We have a very small > number of good imports, and dozens (if not more) bad imports. Bad > imports are so commonplace in OSM that within the OSM community, bots > of any sort are discouraged, but especially any imports, and > especially (as you appear to be proposing), merging existing data with > imported data.
+1 bots and imports are also fantastic ways of washing away community consensus for the ideas of a single person. there has been, for a very long time, a code of conduct for such automated or mechanical edits (not just bots and imports, but also mass edits with the usual editors) [1]. it's interesting that almost no-one has followed the code of conduct, including logging their activity on the log [2]. of course, the best thing is that these automated edits never happen at all, instead that tools are provided (like the geofabrik inspector, keep-right or the duplicate nodes map) to help the community fix these errors themselves. we need to start cracking down on these disruptive and counter-productive bots. cheers, matt [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits/Code_of_Conduct [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits/Log _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
