On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Frank Sautter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello andy, > > Andy Allan schrieb: >>> I see that someone is running a bot across the entire planet, > europe > >>> I'm asking now for this person to publicly justify to all the >>> contributors to OpenStreetMap why he or she knows better than they >>> do about tagging? > >>> This bot has now effectively blacklisted a number of perfectly >>> plausible tags, including "annotation", "node", "notice", "remark", >>> "grade", "track", "water", "automate" - and has also made some >>> potentially data-corrupting assumptions. > i checked them on dirk stoeckers tagwatch, before doing this. > >>> Take "grade" for instance, all occurances of which have now been >>> changed to "tracktype". Which is a hell of an assumption about the >>> use of the "grade" tag, and what people potentially might want to >>> mark with that in the future. This isn't just typo fixing, this is >>> going way beyond that. > grade has been replaced by tracktype in 92 occurances on highway=track, > where a numeric value 1-5 was in the value field. > > frank
I don't think you answered any of my questions. Thanks, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
