hallo someoneelse, i'm the one behind xybot.
Someoneelse schrieb: > I see that xybot has woken up again. Would an announcement on this list > really have been too much to ask? xybot is running constantly every week. it has not been woken up again. > I'm guessing that the rules that it's following are these: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User_FixTypo3Euro:Xybot yes > If so there are a number of potential problems, especially where the > change is not a "straightforward typo". > One example is way 32539831 which was changed from "landuse=wood" to > "landuse=forest". How does it know that landuse=forest is correct as > opposed to natural=wood? Both are on map features. you are right, i will take out those rules where xybot is just guessing the optimal values and ask the maintainers of http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/ or http://keepright.ipax.at/report_map.php to add them to their validation tools so a human brain can set them to the correct value. > Another problem is where there is: > tag_a=value_a > tag_b=value_b > If it thinks that tag_a is a misspelling for tag_b it'll change the > tagging to the following: > tag_b=value_a > which is just plain wrong. no, such changes are prohibited in the algorithm. > If it is necessary to "validate" the data against a pre-conceived idea > of what it should contain (and I'm not convinced that it is) wouldn't it > be better to collect lists of "errors" by last modifying user and > suggest via mail that they review them? i think this would result in a massive spamming of the osm users and i don't think that the messaging infrastructure of osm is able to handle that. frank _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
