On 1/3/2012 7:59 PM, the Old Topo Depot wrote:
Certainly inconsistency appears in any large dataset that's touched by a large number of editors. I don't see why expecting contributors to try to comply with reasonable data entry/quality guidelines is unreasonable. JOSM has a suite of validity checkers to try to apply constancy guidelines to new/edited data. Why might running clean-up bots antagonize mappers (particularly if their updates can be filtered from edit lists ;-)) any more than validation checks before updates ?
I don't think the bots themselves will antagonize mappers except for 2 possible cases:
1 - A mapper abbreviates an already expanded name, and doesn't like the style change because name no longer renders in Mapnik at a certain zoom, etc. 2 - The edge cases where the abbreviated name is the official name and cannot be expanded. Would this need a special tag to tell the bot that the name is correct?
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