John Chambers wrote:
I am not a complete newbie, but I am when it comes to bot edits. A bot has come when I wasn't looking in the guise of TIGER name expansion, and added southwest to the names of all the streets in my subdivision. That is in no way part of the name. It is a deprecated postal designation for the local post office. The post office doesn't even need the ordinal directions since they use zip codes anyway. That same bot edit has apparently changed the name of 10,000 streets in Georgia, USA. Do I have to manually revert the ones I am familiar with? Is there any way to prevent bot edits on features that have been manually edited?
I'd message the bot account saying that there's been a mistake, explaining what's happened and that in this case the "SW" in the name wasn't actually part of the name (if the bot's OSM user page says to message another user, then message them instead).
The person running the bot should be able to revert the erronous changes and reconfigure their future changes to not make changes that they shouldn't be making.
It might be worth either or both of you mentioning it on the talk-us mailing list, or another US-specific channel, as I suspect there's far more expertise there than here about "what works and what doesn't" about Tiger name expansions there than here.
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