On 28/09/2020 10:00, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Rodrigo,
On 27.09.20 17:28, Rodrigo Díez Villamuera wrote:
After some time using OSM as a user, I decided to make my first step as
a contributor, hence this email and the proposal inside.
If your first idea of "how to contribute to OSM" is "how to write a
script that runs an automated edit on the body of OSM data", then
something is amiss!
Anyone can contribute to OSM in ways that best suits them.
He's here asking for advice & guidance & appears to be following the
rules..
The change you plan to execute is of limited use. Yes, it ensures more
conformity in the data, but it will be a temporary fix (since new
"wrong" URLs can be added at any time).
Moot. Your claim applies to all tags, all the time. By your logic we
might as well not amend anything.
Anyone consuming OSM data must
be able to work with URLs that miss a schema, and indeed today any
browser can do that.
I noted links without http or www. ie zonzorestaurant.com isn't
recognized by OSM website, but is interpreted by web browsers.
So what your edit does is, it "touches" lots of objects and adds no
meaningful information whatsoever.
Conformity, accuracy.
It creates load on the database;
Seriously? For how long?
it creates a new version of every object you touch which, informationally
speaking, is identical to the old version. It produces larger diff
files, larger history files, and on top of that runs the risk of making
data look more current than it is ("oh, this pub has last been changed
by someone two months ago, so surely it will still be in business" when
in fact the last OSMer who saw that pub with their own eyes did so five
years ago).
These are nit-picking excuses, that occur with all edits.
Unsure why some are against improving the quality of the database,
especially by automated/mass edit*. Having one user amend hundreds of
tags is the same as have hundreds of contributors amending individual
tags, except there're all checkable within one changeset & can *easily*
be reverted if required.
* Please remember those who conceived this anti mass edit ruling were
the ones who messed up the US TIGER import & couldn't be bothered to fix it.
There are many, many better ways to contribute to OSM than runnning a
useless automated conformity edit. Take a notebook or mobile editor, go
outside, check if the phone booths on OSM are still there on the ground,
add a few opening times, or even trees for that matter - a single hour
of such original work is more useful to OSM that what you are proposing
here.
This is my retort to the requests to join OSMF & sit through long,
tedious committee meetings.
Again, we contribute to OSM in the way which best suits us.
Remember: OSM is not an IT project.
Tell that to the organisers/speakers at State of the Maps
DaveF
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