[Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

[Paul Norman]

> From: Toby Murray [mailto:toby.murray at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 5:34 PM
> Subject: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings
> 
> So NE2 just did a bunch of "work" on Kansas highway relations.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/NE2/edits
> 
> Some of it was ok but he also removed the name=* tag from the 60-
> something relations I have already done. I know that the name tag isn't
> really needed for some of these relations but it is a well established
> tag and shouldn't be removed because of personal preference. Nearly half
> of all route=road relations have a name=* tag.
> 
> He also created some kind of temporary placeholder relation that is
> presumably only of use to him:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1798794
> 
> He has imposed his personal tagging preferences on an area he is not
> familiar with and removed data of another mapper without consultation.
> Is there any reason I shouldn't revert these changes?


He has a history in Canada of deleting data in the same manner and trying to
impose his tagging preferences without consultation. Cleanup of his last
mapping in Canada is still going on.

The vandalism policy states that once someone has been identified as a
problematic contributor then only a brief inspection of edits is required
before reverting future changesets. I'd say that reverting his changesets is
a proportionate response, given  his past history of deleting data and
controversial changes where he has no local knowledge.

For reference, 

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits/Code_of_Conduct
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_working_group/Mechanical_Edit_Policy
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vandalism