Andy Allan <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Peter Budny <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Writing, testing, and evaluating a bot is within the scope of a class >> project for Emerging Database Technologies. Working on osm2pgsql is >> not. > > So? If you were running a class project on "Rearranging geospatial > data into the shape of flowers", is that supposed to convince me that > it's a good idea? I really don't care what's in scope of your class > and what's not. What you are proposing is a bad idea.
Well, I'm already committed to the project. If the general tone is that automated edits are not welcome, I'll happily do edits on a local database and throw them away later, leaving OSM in exactly the same incomplete state it's in now. I'd much rather my work be put to some use. It would be nice if you and others could describe what kind of automated edits /would/ be welcome. I think the idea that /no/ robot could possibly improve OSM data correctly is absurd. If you'd like me to generate but not apply changesets, and hold them until people approve that the robot is not causing harm, I can do that. If you'd like me to choose a different task for the robot to perform, I can do that. If you'd like me to buzz off and continue to let people waste their time doing edits that could be performed much faster by a robot... well, I guess I'd have to live with that, if it's really what you want. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student \ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
