Hi Tod, On 01/05/2017 09:26 PM, Tod Fitch wrote: > I monitor a number of places I’ve done mapping in and suspect I’ll be back to > in the future. Today I noticed a change set that covers nearly all of > California and Nevada [1]. It looks like this same mapper has even done some > changes that span continents [2]. > > I guess I prefer geographically compact change sets: It makes me feel that > all the changes have actually been looked at. And, at least with how I use > the OSM tools I know about, I can quickly take a look and see if I agree or > not. In this case, I’ve found a few of the actual ways changed in my area of > interest [3] and wonder why the street name was dropped from the way. I guess > I need to dig through all the changed ways now and it would just be easier if > the change set did not cover so large an area most of which I have no way of > doing a site survey to verify. > > Am I out of line to be annoyed when I see a change set like this one?
Well maybe annoyance is too intense as a first reaction. We have rules about automatic/mechanical edits that say that any edit where the person making the edit doesn't actually look at the concrete object they're editing needs to be discussed and approved in advance. So "I'll find all mini roundabouts in California, look them up on Bing imagery, and remove them if what I see isn't a mini roundabout" is ok to do just like that, but "I'll find all mini roundabouts in California and remove them whoesale because there can't legally be any" is something that would require prior discussion which obviously hasn't happened in this case. But it's quite possible that the user in question didn't know that so the best thing is to make contact via a changeset discussion and find out what happened and what the user was doing/thinking. If necessary, the edit can then be reverted. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
