[Talk-ca] Significant vandalism

[Pierre-Léo Bourbonnais]

Vandalism is becoming an issue in Canada… 
In the Montreal area, we have an autistic boy who adds non existing motorways and complete fantasy neighbourhoods almost every week now. I usually revert within the same day, and his account is blocked by the DWG some days later but he creates a new user the next week. While changing a place name is bad enough, adding complete fantasy road networks can create real accidents, like the guy who fell off an old bridge with his truck because google/openstreetmap (this was not specified in the news) had wrong road classification and the routing engine routed him on an abandoned road with insecure bridges and he did not see anything because it was during a snow storm I believe…

While I don’t think we should restrict access to the public for editing, I think the DWG should at least make it mandatory for new users to have at least their first changesets be reviewed before commit… Otherwise us mappers will loose too much time reverting and repairing stuff before actually doing valuable editing.

> On Jul 15, 2023, at 2:32 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this act of vandalism appears to be an escalation of previous edit wars
> that were hitherto confined to the territory of Ukraine. We'll deal with
> it but it will take a little while to ensure we're not throwing the baby
> out with the bathwater. If someone feels that a name:ru tag missing for
> a few days is a huge issue for their region they're welcome to apply
> their own fixes; otherwise patience will do it.
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 
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