[Moderation] duplicate ways

[Arno Teigseth]

Hi

I'm not sure if this is actually vandalism, but it seems one or more
users has been adding lots of [partially] duplicate ways to Ecuador.

I believe this is due to lack of experience, since it's a fairly new
user: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Caco0908



Some examples (the city of Riobamba is full of these):
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/79585584 (seems like "scatter")

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/79585546
(duplicate)

On the other hand, some of the roads, for example curves, are way too
detailed and exact to be input by hand, so I think this might be an
import of some kind. I see JOSM is used.

Check out: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/79585146

Now, the additions aren't actually vandalistic, they are just bad
quality because it seems the existing streets aren't taken into
consideration. 

Also have a look at changeset
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5899992

which has 6536 pages...

All this strengthens my feeling of copy+paste/import from other map
sources. Could be copyright infringement, what do I know.

What should be done about this? I like the very large increase in
detail, but preexisting data isn't taken into account it seems.

Well I'm going to Riobamba tomorrow, so I'll check if these are real
streets.


best
Arno Teigseth
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