[Talk-GB] Imaginery footpaths added by user "Gavaasuren"

[Chris Hill]

I have already notified tye data working group. The user was contacted, his imaginary work was not reverted and he was not blocked, he continues to add complete junk from his armchair. He needs to be stopped.

On 18 August 2014 10:59:22 GMT+01:00, SomeoneElse <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>User "Gavaasuren" has been adding a series of imaginary footpaths over 
>the last few weeks, each with the changeset comment "zwischen 
>Fußgängerzonen und Straßen Fußweg erstellt".  What they seem to be
>doing 
>is joining "pedestrian islands" to random nearby roads in order to 
>resolve "routing errors".
>
>Whilst the existance of a highway=pedestrian area that isn't connected 
>is an indication of something, it's usually just an indication of that 
>mapping in a particular area is not complete.
>
>For example, this way(1) was added to connect the pedestrian area to a 
>random road, but in this instance the mapping of the marketplace as a 
>pedestrian area is an approximation - what there actually are there
>lots 
>of paths between market stalls, and I'm sure at some point in the
>future 
>it'll get mapped properly.  Adding this imaginery footpath doesn't fix 
>the problem - it's mapped just as "wrongly" now as it was before 
>(arguably more so), but it does hide the problem from QA sites.
>
>I've messaged this user 6 times over the last month and although
>they've 
>replied communication does not seem to have occurred (they're still 
>adding imaginery footpaths).  I also resurveyed a relatively local 
>one(2) to show that, following a survey, what actually exists bears 
>little resemblance to their "fixes".
>
>I've just messaged them again saying "please stop!".  If they continue 
>I'll mention it to the data working group; in the meantime I'd suggest 
>that people check their local areas for these edits and (if they're 
>invalid) revert them, and if possible survey and map the affected areas
>
>properly.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Andy
>
>
>
>(1) http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/297892595/history
>(2) http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/53.01357/-1.35353
>
>
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cheers, Chris
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