[Talk-GB] 3 more changesets from Liam123 for reversion

David Earl david at frankieandshadow.com
Fri Aug 7 13:47:07 BST 2009


Andy Allan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:21 PM, David Earl<david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
>> Peter Miller wrote:
>>> 3 more changesets today from Liam123 for reversion.
>>>
>>> I have added them to the revert page and have copied this email the
>>> Andy.
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GB_revert_request_log
>> You got there before me - I was just looking at those too.
>>
>> He's making really subtle edits - like moving a supermarket a few
>> metres, putting a little hook on the end of a railway bridge, things
>> like that, which undermine the accuracy of the map but wouldn't be
>> obvious just looking at it, even if you were the author. He moved the
>> River Yare estuary by a few tens of metres, which from anyone else I'd
>> have accepted as a surveyed correction. He moved a bit of boundary in
>> the Orwell estuary near Ipswich and changed a railway to goods with
>> lines=8, which again is just plausible but I don't trust it.
> 
> I've updated the wiki page. The two changesets I have taken action on*
> are vandalism, and I'd be happy to stand up and explain myself. The
> other two changesets contain literally hundreds of little node moves
> of coastlines and maritime admin boundaries. Since I can't tell
> whether they are vandalism or improvements, I'm going to leave my
> suspicions to one side and wait for any compelling evidence before I
> take action.

I just installed Frederick's revert perl utility and tried it out on the 
first of these changesets, which I do believe to be vandalism. I think 
it's only a lot of edits because he dragged a small number of ways to 
new positions, the effect of which is to move lots of nodes.

David





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