I'm worried about the ongoing push to extend the reach of rules originally designed (and supported by the community) for imports and scripts to actions initiated by human mappers using editor software.
Even though your mail's subject mentions "import guidelines", your proposed text switches to the much wider term "automated edit" and includes such things as ... On 25.09.2012 19:11, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > - search-and-replace tag changes > - automated geometry fixup > - reverting edits In my opinion, none of that (if performed though editing software on a moderate amount of data) is something that should require the same amount of discussion and bureaucracy as a country-wide import. These are simply different things than imports and scripts, should be considered separately, and there should be much lower barriers for performing these actions. Tobias _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
