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.
The duplicate nodes map is not the best example of this. People have
sometimes
jumped in and done heavy edits not based on local knowledge.
Exactly - the edits I have seen will join highways to power lines,
pipelines, and admin boundaries just because nodes happened to be nearby.
A bot that joined
roads to other roads (and only to other roads) at county boundaries would
actually be more constructive as we could then add a notice that this
issue
with TIGER roads has been fixed completely.
I still maintain that this must be a manual operation. Even in the
simplest case of a road continuing across a county boundary, the road
doesn't always meet. The more complex but more common case is of "county
line" roads. The road will appear in county A, county B, or both,
depending on local rules, street configuration, and varying along the
border. Resolving this is a manual operation to decide which road to use
for reference, deleting the duplicate, then stitching the roads together.
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