I was thinking about possible changes to the tool that would make it a useful tool for the community, and at the same time not violating any policy.
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de> wrote: > On Monday 16 October 2017, Marc Gemis wrote: >> Would Yuri's tool be OK, if the proposed changes were limited to >> objects that were created/last edited after survey to the person that >> is using the tool ? >> >> I was thinking of a scenario where people try to help with a >> tag-renaming proposal. >> Such a tool would be handy to help them locate all objects that they >> know well and retag them. > > I think you are missing the point here - this tool's only purpose is > doing automated edits. The discussion if and under what circumstances > automated edits are OK for the community is not the issue here, this is > already regulated by the automated edit policy. > > Creating a tool for doing automated edits is perfectly fine, but > designing it in a way and advertising it in a way that encourages > automated edits in ignorance of existing rules is not. > > You probably recall that we have had discussions in how far Maproulette > encourages mechanical edits > (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/imagico/diary/40759) but Martijn has > always demonstrated he is aware of the problem and tries to avoid such > abuse, for example by not allowing anonymous challenges and not having > simple click through tasks with already fully predetermined editing > decisions. > > In summary so far i think it can be said developers in the OSM context > have overwhelmingly been responsible in the way they design tools in > compliance with the spirit of the OSM community. But this one is > clearly different in that regard. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
