[Talk-GB] Getting vandalism reverted without associating email address with location

[David Woolley]

On 05/08/13 11:43, David Woolley wrote:
> On 05/08/13 11:22, SomeoneElse wrote:
>> David Woolley wrote:
>>> I don't even want to go into too much detail about the nature of the
>>> vandalism here.
>>
>> If you did want to give an example without making any specific
>> reference, perhaps you could perform similar "vandalism" (in a different
>> place with different names / other identifying info) using the dev API:
>>
>> http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/53.12037/-0.52980
>>
> The reason I'm uncomfortable about giving details is that they would
> allow the reversion to be identified.  In this case, I don't think there
> is any issue that there was vandalism.
>
> If necessary, I'll do a piecemeal reconstruction of the bits that are
> blocking me, but that may prevent a proper reversion.
>
> I'll give you some more details off list.  Please don't copy them back
> on list.

An off list exchange suggests the problem could have been caused by 
someone trying to declutter a map for private use without realising they 
were making public changes.  However, the problem still remains of how 
to get it reverted, other than by piecemeal repair, whilst only using my 
OSM identity.