[OSM-talk-be] talk: "responding to vandalism"

[Karel Adams]

What's urgent or important about this? Is vandalism an issue on OSM? A 
problematic issue? I have as yet not seen any.



On 19/03/17 17:20, Ben Abelshausen wrote:
> This is an excellent idea, perhaps we should discuss this the next 
> hackday? Or can someone try and set this up for Belgium?
>
> Met vriendelijke groeten,
> Best regards,
>
> Ben Abelshausen
>
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 6:07 PM, joost schouppe 
> <joost.schouppe at gmail.com <mailto:joost.schouppe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     There is an interesting thread going on in the talk mailing list:
>
>     https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2017-March/077672.html
>     <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2017-March/077672.html>
>
>     It started of with some complaining about vandalism, but it got
>     interesting when Thomas Straupis started explaining how they work
>     in Lithaunia. Basically, ALL changesets are validated. But
>     changesets by "known mappers" are automatically approved, and some
>     changesets are highlighted because they are marked by other tools
>     as "suspicious".
>     (this is the same Thomas I interviewed recently about their
>     dataconflation strategies:
>     http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/diary/40605
>     <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/diary/40605>)
>
>     With Zors already checking all new mappers' changesets using the
>     welcome tool (thank you!), it might be interesting to see if we
>     can expand on that here too.
>
>     Here's some practical stuff from his e-mail:
>
>     > Is your process documented anywhere and is the code available?
>
>       There is a "help" page, but it is in Lithuanian... Maybe google
>     translate can help:
>     http://patrulis.openmap.lt/pagalba.html
>     <http://patrulis.openmap.lt/pagalba.html>
>
>       Code (php+postgresql) is very basic and dirty (i'm not a web
>     developer) and I didn't have time to put it on github yet (planning to
>     do that for a year or so...). But code is also full of Lithuanian
>     comments and names...
>
>       If somebody wants to have a look at it - I can share/send the code
>     and give any information required in English.
>
>     P.S. This patrolling stuff is integrated with QA tools (fetching a
>     list of errors from keepright, osmose as well as doing local error
>     checking) and data synchronisation tools. So "all in one" solution.
>     You get a list of unapproved changes, a list of not yet fixed errors
>     and a status of synchronisation of different items.
>
>     -- 
>     Joost Schouppe
>     OpenStreetMap
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