One thing that needs consideration is how do we want to deal with the currently existing elements tagged with emergency=ses_station, amenity=emergency_service or emergency_service=technical. In total there are about 1500 of these objects. As of now, there is consensus that these tags should be deprecated. But that just means that we will edit the documentation in the wiki. Untill now we did not discuss manual or (semi-)automated mass edits. I think we should defenatly include a clear statemeant about this topic in the proposal. If we want to propose to do (semi-) automated or mechanical edits, we would need to make sure that we obey the Automated Edits code of conduct.
I already did some analysis of the situation. I think at least about half the objects could be cleaned up quite easily without manually checking them. But before going into to much detail about the “how” I would like to first discuss the “if”.
My opinion is, that we should do some mechanical edits to clean up as many objects as possible while ensuring that no false matches get edited too. For the rest we could maybe make a maproulette chalenge, but I am not sure about this.
What do you think about this? Should all edits be done by a human? Should everything be edited automatically? Should we filter the objects to only edit some of them automatically and some of them manually? What do you think about using maproulette?