<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Verdana;">I write for advice on couple of related, very annoying edits that happened in my area yesterday. One of the two users responded to a changeset message, and reverted the change.<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">I suspect they were involved in doing mass or part-automated edits for Facebook. The two offending changes are:<br></div><ul><li style="font-family:Verdana;"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/97788019">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/97788019</a> / <a href="https://osmcha.org/changesets/97788019/">https://osmcha.org/changesets/97788019/</a><br></li><ul><li style="font-family:Verdana;">(Remodelled a T-junction back to the roundabout it was 2 years ago - complete with entry lanes etc. a very nice job)<br></li></ul><li style="font-family:Verdana;"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/97789682">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/97789682</a> / <a href="https://osmcha.org/changesets/97789682/">https://osmcha.org/changesets/97789682/</a><br></li><ul><li style="font-family:Verdana;">(Patched up the resulting gaps in route relations, etc)<br></li></ul></ul><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">Like I say, the users have at least put everything back, and have engaged in conversation on the subject. So it's not a matter for DWG.<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">But my concern is that one of them has around 1000 edits to his name; and that the two user names *imply* dozens (hundreds?) of others a blundering about replacing accurate in-person mapping with nice-looking but incorrect data from who-knows-what sources?<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">Is anyone keeping a log of similar incidents from FB mappers and/or our other corporate benefactors?<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">Am I making a mountain out of a molehill? Happy to wind my neck in, if so.<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div id="sig98312048"><div class="signature">---<br></div><div class="signature"><a href="https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?spiregrain">https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?spiregrain</a><br></div><div class="signature"><a href="mailto:spiregrain_osm@ksglp.org.uk">spiregrain_osm@ksglp.org.uk</a><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div></body></html>