[talk-au] Where did the town go?

[Grant Slater]

On 1 December 2011 13:48, John Henderson <snowgum at gmx.com> wrote:
> On 01/12/11 22:34, Mark Pulley wrote:
>
>> User "cc-cleaner"? I've had a quick look at some of the changesets, and
>> they all seem to be just deleting things. I have a suspicion that the
>> things being deleted are by users who haven't agreed to the new license,
>> but I didn't think we were up to this stage yet.
>>
>>
>> Should we get all of these changesets undone?
>>
>> I've also just noticed that most of Cobar has gone. I did some edits on
>> the way through in May, some of these have been left alone, but some
>> have disappeared completely or been replaced by highway=road.
>>
>> As one example, here is Louth Road:
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/119756523
>>
>> This is just a stub, this used to link on to the other roads. No idea
>> why this has been done, as I *have* agreed to the new license, so my
>> edits don't need to be done again. (This was done by Firefishy, who
>> doesn't even live in Australia - I've just sent him a message to enquire
>> about this particular way.)
>
>
> I saw the same relationship with Firefishy (from South Africa) and went to
> bed puzzling about the coincidence.  Firefishy was adding in a little data
> within minutes of cc-cleaner's massive deletes.
>
> I woke up a couple of minutes ago realizing that this pair of users must be
> the licence-change grim reaper at work.
>

I have nothing to do with the cc_cleaner user's deletes/edits. I often
watch OSM edits using http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LiveMapViewer
and noticed the deletes of mostly DrLizAU's contributions. I suspected
DrLizAU was removing her own contributions, but cannot back this up.

I decided to get stuck in and remap what I could easily remotely remap.

PS: LiveMapViewer is awesome ;-)

Regards
 Grant