On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Alan Mintz wrote: >> They seem to be mostly (all?) on imports of TIGER 2009 data, which has a >> couple other apparent issues[1]. I looked at one node, contacted the user >> named in the changeset and got a reply that did not lead me to think that >> they intended on fixing the issues. > > Someone who imports stuff and then doesn't feel responsible for fixing > obvious problems with it should not have imported anything in the first > place. OSM is not the scrap heap for the world's geodata. I hope you > have made that clear to them ;-)
Quite! And people doing bulk imports without following the community guidelines should have that pointed out to them too. >> Is there a generic "fixbot" that can do these kinds of tasks? Is there one >> running somewhere that can be given fixes of this type? > > Automated editing of any kind is a contentious issue in OSM and should > only be done after reasonable consultation. There is a guy in Germany, > user name Xylome, who regularly runs a bot called "xybot". I believe > this bot also does typos etc., but it has often been criticized in the > past for its rogue-ness. True. But as to the original point, could someone please bulk-remove these tags before the next mis-guided importer does the same thing and add lat/lon tags to all the nodes on another import? Most bad ideas in this area originate from people copying the original TIGER import with its superfluous tags. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
