[talk-au] Lots of identical changesets for toll roads (possibly incorrect).

[Warin]

On 26/11/21 11:36 am, Jake Coppinger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed I was getting bad OSM car directions which avoided General 
> Holmes Dr (the east/west road under Sydney airport). I checked 
> OverpassTurbo and it's been marked as a toll road 
> (https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1ds0 <https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1ds0>), 
> which is incorrect as I drive there all the time - the toll road 
> starts west of the Marsh st Intersection (to the left).
>
> Looking into the history of the editor of the last changeset 
> (https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mayank_B/history#map=11/19.4601/-99.2140 
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mayank_B/history#map=11/19.4601/-99.2140>) 
> I see about 100 edits all with the same changeset name: "Added a toll 
> road". The majority are in Mexico, but many in Sydney, Melbourne & 
> Brisbane.
>
> I'm concerned lots of these may be incorrect edits, or (outdated) 
> copyrighted data - considering the edits are across 3 countries in the 
> span of 3 weeks in Aug/Sep.
>
> Is someone able to revert 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/110105021#map=15/-33.9416/151.1734 
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/110105021#map=15/-33.9416/151.1734> 
> in particular, and look into whether more need to be reverted/fixed? 
> I've left a comment, but this site suggests they are not an active 
> mapper: https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Mayank_B 
> <https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Mayank_B>
>
> I'm a long time lurker in this list, and only have experience with 
> iD/OSMAnd. I hope this is the appropriate way to go about this, please 
> let me know if not.
>

It is fine to ask questions this way.

Getting what data is left by Mayank_B is fairly easy in JOSM, using 
'download data' and the overpass API - the query is "user:Mayank_B" and 
thaqt will then get anything that is authored by him and not changed by 
anyone else.


Andrew Harvey post is noted.