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0 pointsfineIllregister4y ago0 comments

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

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donalhunt4y ago

In 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.

matkoniecz4y ago

For example you can see recent import and revert at 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Some well meaning person imported outdated dataset of fire stations in USA.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.

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