Automated edits/rodrigodiez/Add missing URL scheme to pub websites in UK

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Problem

At the moment of writing this proposal, in the UK there are 127 amenity=pub nodes with a website=* lacking an URL Scheme (http(s)://).

Consumers expect to find a valid URL in website=*, including a scheme, as described on Key:website but, in this case, the content of the tag is not a valid URL. Consumers may face all sort of problems when trying to use website=* as a URL.

Examples:

Proposal

  • To write a script that, for each of these nodes, behaves as follows
    • Find an appropriate scheme
      • Append https:// to the original website=* (as described on Key:website#Privacy_and_security https is prefered)
      • Load the resulting URL and follow a maximum of 3 redirects until a 2xx HTTP response is found
      • If https:// is a valid schema for the website, stop here
      • Append http:// to the original website=*
      • Load the resulting URL and follow a maximum of 3 redirects until a 2xx HTTP response is found
    • If a valid scheme is found, amend node's website=* with SCHEME://PREVIOUS_WEBSITE
    • If no valid scheme is found, do nothing
  • To discuss the proposal with Talk-GB until a consensus is reached
  • To keep this page updated with the results of the discussion
  • If the experience is satisfactory, to raise a more global discussion with the OSM community to detect and fix schemaless website=* tags in a more automated way and potentially a greater scope.

Scope

One-off script, targetting nodes in UK with amenity=pub and website=* not starting with http:// nor https://

[out:json]; area["ISO3166-1"="GB"][admin_level=2]; node (area)[amenity=pub] out;


Contact

Rodrigo Diez Villamuera, rodrigo@rodrigodiez.io

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