[Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

[Paul Norman]

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/804 placed to force the user to 
read it before they can continue to edit.

If needed, I can merge all the users changes and revert them in one go.

On 9/10/2015 3:34 PM, Elliott Plack wrote:
> This is very strange! The user HomicideBaltimore has been mapping all 
> kinds of buildings around Baltimore that don't exist. They're old 
> public housing projects or rowhomes that were razed, but seem to have 
> been used on the set of the NBC show Homicide, Life on the Streets, 
> shot in Baltimore.
>
> What should I do?
>
> This user is introducing all kinds of invalid data, and fair 
> thoroughly mapped stuff too. All in iD, which is odd. The current Bing 
> imagery shows none of this. I am shocked that someone would spend this 
> much time on such a thing.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3726365602 - Police station in the 
> show, not a real police station.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/33940333 this block was razed 
> years ago, and has been replaced by a new building.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/33889607 This area has been 
> cleared and replaced by some new buildings.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/HomicideBaltimore/history#map=15/39.3011/-76.5900
>
> There are nearly 200 changsets around Baltimore like this! I have 
> spent considerable time mapping in this area, adding the brownfields 
> and such. Not to mention the Baltimore Import, much of which is being 
> trashed by this user.
>
> What can be done? I commented on one changeset, but I don't have any 
> experience reverting things.
>
> Elliott