[Imports] Fwd: A lot of nodes imported from GEOnet Names Server (GNS ) were deleted in Yemen, KSA, Egypt Iraq and other countries

[Frederik Ramm]

apologies, forgot to Cc the list


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Subject: Re: [Imports] A lot of nodes imported from GEOnet Names Server 
(GNS ) were deleted in Yemen, KSA, Egypt Iraq and other countries
Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 12:25:12 +0200
From: Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
To: Saeed Hubaishan <hubaishan at outlook.sa>

Hi,

On 04.05.22 10:47, Saeed Hubaishan wrote:
> There were a lot of nodes deleted by the same comment:

That was me! I had analysed the data and found that while many had been 
modified after the import, modifications were usually just automated 
edits themselves, leaving the nodes at the exact (wrong) position and 
just removing some is_in tag or copying one name tag into another or so. 
If manual work was indeed applied in Yemen, I'll happily revert the 
deletion. I will have a look at this later today.

The main reason for the deletion was that a random sample of nodes 
created by that importer showed them to be in crudely wrong locations 
(villages and towns where there was clearly no settlement on aerial 
imagery), and the importer was unreachable for comment.

Bye
Frederik

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