[Talk-ca] Significant vandalism

[Andy Townsend]

On 15/07/2023 13:29, Pierre-Léo Bourbonnais wrote:
> 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.

I don't think that that is a decision for the DWG itself to make, but 
rather for the OSM community more generally.  I'd suggest raising this 
issue more widely on community.osm.org to discuss with other mappers 
internationally.

In this particular case, I'd ask how do you know that a new account is 
this problematic person, and not a new well-meaning mapper?  Is there 
something that could be automated to detect a new account?  Perhaps an 
overpass query for (some quantity) of motorways in a certain area?

For the avoidance of doubt, the only thing that the DWG can do here that 
ordinary mappers can't is to prevent users from editing via user 
blocks.  We can also redact data for e.g. copyright reasons, but that 
hasn't been a factor in this case.  All the tools that I and other DWG 
members have used to revert Canadian fantasy motorways are public.

Best Regards,

Andy (from the DWG)