[Talk-GB] User with long list of slow vandalism

SomeoneElse lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk
Mon Sep 23 11:45:35 UTC 2013


OpenStreetmap HADW wrote:
> The edits seem to be seriously incompetent, rather than actually 
> bogus, or malicious.


What they've added is mostly just untagged ways (sometimes for 
buildings, sometimes perhaps fences, sometimes unclear).  I'd mostly 
therefore mostly agree with "incompetence rather than vandalism", 
although some drawn untagged ways don't seem to correspond to anything.

They have deleted some residential roads.  Previously I undeleted a 
number of these as they occurred, but 4 days ago messaged about this one:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/14759364/history

and have as yet had no reply.  The last time that I looked there were a 
number of others yet to be fixed - I was waiting for a reply or "next 
edit following my message" before fixing or chasing up again.  
Presumably if they're using JOSM there's no guarantee that they'll ever 
see inter-user messages, so maybe a short block might be in order?

Cheers,

Andy




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