[Talk-GB] help with reverting changeset (all cycleways in a particular area deleted)

[Jon Pennycook]

I have had to escalate to the DWG - AR_Mapper is really unhappy about the
use of the highway=cycleway tag and mapping cycle paths.

Jon

On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, 07:28 Jon Pennycook, <jpennycook at bcs.org.uk> wrote:

> Morning.
>
> I think those are two different people - Nathan_A_RF now tends to
> specialise in edits around Southampton (I think they used some
> controversial sources for a wider area until last Autumn, according to
> their Block page), and AR_Mapper specialises in Bracknell and New York.
>
> But I have noticed that a small number of people on OSM don't seem to like
> cycle infra (or maybe they don't understand it).
>
> Jon
>
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2022 at 05:41, Robert Skedgell <rob at hubris.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> The same user added an entirely spurious bicycle=no to a bus gate in
>> Woodham Ferrers. This made cycle routers take the scenic route and
>> turned 300m of shared footway along Ferrers Road into a dead end. There
>> was no source for the "corrections" in this edit. How odd that cycle
>> infra seems to be the common feature in their problematic edits...
>>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/93778124
>>
>> On 17/04/2022 18:51, Jon Pennycook via Talk-GB wrote:
>> > Thanks Phil - that's very helpful.
>> >
>> > I don't understand what caused them to do this.  It turns out they are
>> > not new - they just have a low edit count and that I've spoken to them
>> > before about cycleways in Bracknell:-
>> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/92601276
>> > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/92601276>
>> >
>> > Jon
>> >
>> > On Sun, 17 Apr 2022 at 18:47, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk
>> > <mailto:phil at trigpoint.me.uk>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     I believe I have reverted
>> >     it, https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/119825773
>> >     <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/119825773>
>> >
>> >     Phil (trigpoint)
>> >
>> >     On Sun, 2022-04-17 at 18:10 +0100, Jon Pennycook via Talk-GB wrote:
>> >      > Hello.
>> >      >
>> >      > A relatively new mapper just deleted a whole load of cycleways in
>> >      > Bracknell that were correctly mapped in
>> >      > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/119816211
>> >     <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/119816211>
>> >      > I wasn't able to use http://revert.osmz.ru/
>> >     <http://revert.osmz.ru/> to revert the change:-
>> >      > Status: too big
>> >      > Error: Would not revert 644 changes
>> >      >
>> >      > Could someone assist with the reversion, please?  Or should I
>> contact
>> >      > the DWG for assistance?
>> >      >
>> >      > Jon Pennycook
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