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<div>According to http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=2762871 edits in Brazil, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Senegal have also attracted criticism from locally knowledgeable mappers, looking like someone who is at best out of their
depth.<br>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Marco Boeringa <marco@boeringa.demon.nl><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 08 February 2017 20:46:10<br>
<b>To:</b> talk-gb@openstreetmap.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Hi all,<br>
<br>
I now had a very preliminary and short look at some of the changesets <br>
involved in the Wales area, which was revealing. I now noticed most of <br>
these features seem to have been added by multiple users / accounts:<br>
<br>
- Sam888, e.g. <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/413378224">http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/413378224</a><br>
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- Glucosamine: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/405845733">http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/405845733</a><br>
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- Dyserth: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/388818928">http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/388818928</a><br>
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There may be more... All of these "users" are prolific, leave almost no <br>
changeset comments, and seem to be editing all day. It seems to me these <br>
are editors working professionally for some OSM related company.<br>
<br>
Andy: Is there any chance the DWG could figure out which company these <br>
people are working for, so the company could be contacted about this <br>
specific issue and asked not to add these type of difficult to identify <br>
natural features?<br>
<br>
There are so many changesets involved, I guess doing reverts is almost <br>
impossible, lest one wants to see also more useful stuff being removed <br>
as well, like roads and large and small patches of forest that I also <br>
see being part of these changesets.<br>
<br>
I have the feeling the most offending stuff is primarily the false <br>
natural=heath. So maybe it is a better course of action to select the <br>
heath features in the affected regions in JOSM, and delete only those in <br>
a new changeset. I think this is by far the easiest solution. Of course, <br>
a bit of caution and review will be required to not include properly <br>
digitized heath features by regular OSM users.<br>
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Any other ideas?<br>
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Marco<br>
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> Message: 1<br>
> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 13:09:24 +0000<br>
> From: ael <law_ence.dev@ntlworld.com><br>
> To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org<br>
> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?<br>
> Message-ID: <20170208130924.wdbn72h2r6rk7n6f@shelf.conquest><br>
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> On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 11:22:30AM +0000, Andy Townsend wrote:<br>
>> On 08/02/2017 10:49, Brian Prangle wrote:<br>
>>> It would be great in my opinion if we moved on as a community and<br>
>>> actually decided to act on our discussions.<br>
> I agree that at least those changes that have not been subsequently<br>
> modified by a "legitimate" mapper should be reverted. I thought<br>
> something like that was going to happen.<br>
><br>
> As I have noted before, I have encountered this rubbish in the South<br>
> West and have partly corrected some areas where I have directly<br>
> surveyed, but it was still problematical. I didn't touch adjacent areas<br>
> although I was sure they were wrong.<br>
><br>
> In the light of these discussion, I now feel more bold about perhaps<br>
> just deleting more of this junk unless someone/ some group undertakes<br>
> bulkish reversion.<br>
><br>
> ael<br>
><br>
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