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Let me be the one to say: Open Street Map has had some difficult experiences with automated edits, and has developed a process to prevent such problems. Creat
by fineIllregister 5y ago
Let me be the one to say: Open Street Map has had some difficult experiences with automated edits, and has developed a process to prevent such problems.
Creating such a bot might get edits reverted, unless done consistent with their policies: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits
- donalhunt 5y agoIn addition, the licensing of "public" datasets is not always aligned with the Open Database License (ODbL) used by OpenStreetMap. It's an issue faced by contributors globally.
- matkoniecz 5y agoFor example you can see recent import and revert at https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=fire_station#chronology https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=fire_station#... that is listing how many fire stations are mapped worldwide. Some well meaning person imported outdated dataset of fire stations in USA. Quality of data was - lets say - not great.