Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: > I wonder if another prioritisation approach might be useful > too -- prioritising certain high-value types of objects, > where-ever they might be. Yes, I think that's an excellent idea. Obviously, everyone has their own definition of "high value" (I'm quite anxiou

Re: [Talk-GB] Subjective value of adding FIXMEs by a bot?

2012-03-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 03/03/2012 05:45 PM, Robert Norris wrote: As such I'm thinking the changeset should probably be reverted/removed. Yes, this kind of automated edit is not acceptable. The user seems to lean towards that kind of edit, having seemingly auto-added "operator" tags to French phone boxes pre

Re: [Talk-GB] Subjective value of adding FIXMEs by a bot?

2012-03-03 Thread Andy Allan
On 3 March 2012 16:45, Robert Norris wrote: > > > I can't say I'm convinced about the value of adding FIXMEs to 7000+ postboxes > in the UK in changeset: > ... > As such I'm thinking the changeset should probably be reverted/removed. Wholeheartedly agree. Automated QA shouldn't be run against th

[Talk-GB] Subjective value of adding FIXMEs by a bot?

2012-03-03 Thread Robert Norris
I can't say I'm convinced about the value of adding FIXMEs to 7000+ postboxes in the UK in changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10834378 1. Collection Times when missing can be cross referenced with the open data request with the Royal Mail when the postbox has a reference

Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-03 Thread MarkS
I agree that we want to try and have a complete main road network network. Whilst longish stretches of road are easy to spot there are a lot of other small sections (eg. bridges) which are harder to see on cleanmap (unless the rest of the area is clean). We also have the issue of nodes going

Re: [Talk-GB] Licence change - one month to go

2012-03-03 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
On 2 March 2012 14:35, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > We change to the new licence in just under a month's time, so it's a good > time to look at the current state of the UK. We're almost certainly not going to be able to able to get the UK completely clean by the switch-over, and it's definitely goo