[Talk-GB] dodgy edits without good explanation around Wokingham/Winnersh/Finchampstead

[Jon Pennycook]

Hello.

I've sent an email to the DWG with some of the changesets that I was
particularly concerned about.

Jon

On Fri, 13 May 2022 at 10:59, <osm at poppe.dev> wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> I share your concerns (even with not being from the area), the Changeset
> comments are woefully unhelpful and "Bing Aerial Imagery" is just the
> standard iD source, from what I've seen quality-wise from that imagery I
> doubt that that would even be visible.
>
> If you don't get answers that satisfy your questions for a
> OSM-license-compatible source, asking the DWG for assistance doesn't seem
> to the totally wrong path to go.
>
> Kai
>
> On Fri, 13 May 2022 10:20:06 +0100 Jon Pennycook jpennycook at bcs.org.uk
> said
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > I'm getting concerned that I might be seen as victimising this person,
> since
> > no-one else seems to comment on their changes (except for DaveF in one
> > case).  Can someone look at
> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JunKwonGD/history and let me know if
> you
> > also feel concerned about their edits?  Some seem to be based on copying
> > from questionable sources ("street view" and "Google" for some
> changesets,
> > council documents for others, some changesets seem to be based on some
> kind
> > of plans from developers as they add things that do not exist yet).
> >
> > It's frustrating because I've had to revert two recent changes (one had
> > changed the roads to what was shown on Google StreetView from years ago,
> the
> > other changed a now separated road into a joined road (again not unlike
> > StreetView) and added a non-existent road, not long after I surveyed the
> > area), and fix another (where all parts of a road were joined, where one
> > section was a bridge).
> >
> > If nothing else, the changeset comments are fairly useless and give no
> idea
> > about the source of the edits.
> >
> > Jon
>
>
>
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