On 21 June 2010 00:32, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: > > > I won't run it against the live data and change the data on the server > unless the community thinks this is a good idea. You and I think it > is; let's see if some others support the idea. > > Don't call it a bot. Bots are bad.*
My questions are why have these names been given "Street" not "rue". I don't think name:xx is supposed to be a literal translation but what people of that language would call it. Sometimes there are road signs with both languages on. Some of these might (for whatever, possibly wrong, reason) have "Street" after the French name. Some might just be the user not thinking, or having missing data. Knowing a reason for a lot of the "Street" names would give support to your changes. E.g. a user explaining their lazy entry or seeing a selection are from imports. How will we know the changes were made by your script? Maybe tagging every element isn't necessary and just explain in the changeset description. *You can call it a bot if it is restricted to an area. Like you are doing, and so you count me as supporting this. If you have at least 1-2 people who have an eye over the place then, in my view, you should be allowed to do it. This means you must have support at the very least for each provenance you do it for. For example I only knew the Western half of Vancouver, you would have to also get the support of someone who lives/maps in the East to support you for a city-wide change. With getting boundaries, can you just run it on a bounding box that seems to encompass the whole city? What will happen outside: no name:fr will be found, or they will be changed with just the same accuracy/affect as the ones in the city? Also the value of my support got a half-life since I left Canada at the start of May, and I don't know about the french side. Hopefully you're happy for me to add these thinking points even if you decide to not care about them. -- Gregory o...@livingwithdragons.com http://www.livingwithdragons.com
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