[HOT] User removing highway tags from the Earthquake area (Uganda and Tanzania)

[Michael Heißmeier]

Hi all,

the preliminary fix is committed (changeset 42123103). Took a while because I 
decided to have a look at those ways first. This proved to be a good decision: a 
couple of them were no highways but round huts without any tags...

Feel free to retag the highway network west of Bukoba.

Best Regards
Michael

Marco, 2016-09-13 13:25:
> Go for it. I think that acting quick is essential.
> Thank you both guys for your super fast answers.
>
> Cheers
> Marco
>
> On September 13, 2016 1:14:30 PM GMT+02:00, "Michael Heißmeier" 
> <michael63 at digital-filestore.de> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     unless someone stops me within the next minutes I would assign
>     "highway=road" to untagged ways now. Fixing the tagging will certainly
>     take a while and I have other obligations today as well so others are
>     invited to jump in then.
>
>     Best Regards
>     Michael
>
>     Blake Girardot, 2016-09-13 13:07:
>>     Hi Marco, Hi Michael,
>>
>>     Marco, thank you very much for catching this and posting to the list Marco!
>>
>>     Michael, I would go for option 2
>>
>>     I have also sent an email to the mapper who made the mistake. Mistakes
>>     happen, it is just the nature of things.
>>
>>     If someone wants to fix them up via option 2 above, please let us
>>     know. It will take me at least an hour before I can dig in and fix it
>>     myself, but I will let the list know when I do if no one has started
>>     before then.
>>
>>     Thank you again!
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Blake
>>
>>     On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Michael Heißmeier
>>     <michael63 at digital-filestore.de>  wrote:
>>>     Hi,
>>>
>>>     I would assume that this is some kind of weird error. Looking at the user's
>>>     history this obviously only happened in three changesets, 42110663, 42112337
>>>     and 42112459. His latest one and the immediate previous ones do not show
>>>     this kind of modification.
>>>
>>>     Considering that this is an area with an activation going I am not sure
>>>     whether a standard revert of the changesets will be a good idea - I assume
>>>     that many of these objects have been touched in the meantime.
>>>
>>>     I see two options:
>>>
>>>     1. Revert the changesets and thus lose all other edits by the user from
>>>     these changesets too. I tried locally with changeset 42112459 which would
>>>     result in 16 conflicts to be solved. The main problem would be with nodes
>>>     modified in these changesets and subsequently by other users.
>>>
>>>     2. Only detect ways without tags which is easy with JOSM's validator and
>>>     assign "highway=road" to them to mark them for further inspection. This
>>>     would require going over the whole area afterwards and re-assign proper
>>>     highway tags.
>>>
>>>     I am not sure which one sounds easier. Option 2 is quicker for the immediate
>>>     fix but means a lot of work afterwards.
>>>
>>>     Best Regards
>>>     Michael
>>>
>>>
>>>     Marco, 2016-09-13 12:01:
>>>
>>>     I just came thru this area [1] that I tried to map in the last few days
>>>     and found out that someone has been removing the highway=* tag from a
>>>     large number of ways. I wrote him a private message asking for the
>>>     reason of his edits, but I'd like to share this problem with someone
>>>     with more HOT experience in order to understand what's going on and how
>>>     can we quickly fix this, as road mapping seems to me seriously important
>>>     for the guys on the ground who use OSM to help the locals
>>>
>>>     [1]http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-1.2260/31.5053&layers=HD
>>>
>>>
>>>     Thanks
>>>     Marco
>>>
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>
>     -- 
>     /Michael
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>


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