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

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Fri Sep 11 21:21:50 UTC 2015


if he's ignoring clear requests to stop, would any other project want him?

i see value in historic buildings but a bunch of the other stuff he's done
makes him seem unattractive for any other project.

On 9/11/15 5:14 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
> Agreed that clearly these edits need to be reverted and the account
> probably blocked, but just curious: is there no alternate service
> (akin to the historical maps project) for this person to play in?
>
> Luis
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 2:13 PM Elliott Plack <elliott.plack at gmail.com
> <mailto:elliott.plack at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     It looks like the user is at it again with the old account, has
>     two edits 2 hours ago!
>
>     http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Homicide%20Baltimore/history#map=15/39.2903/-76.5970
>
>     Here they just undid one of the reverted EDITS
>     again: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/33966044
>
>     Here they just undid another one of the reverts, deleting Johns
>     Hopkins Hospital and a bunch of the road infrastructure was
>     altered. http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/33966182 
>
>     The last one I had already manually changed back, as it was one
>     POI edit, again the fake police station from the NBC show with the
>     users name. http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/29141714
>
>     Block and revert?
>
>     Elliott
>
>
>
>     On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:58 PM Mike Pruett <admin at mapsplease.net
>     <mailto:admin at mapsplease.net>> wrote:
>
>         I see that most everything looks to be reverted. I noticed
>         though there is a second account 'Baltimore Homicide' with a
>         space. This account is older but with only 3 edits. 
>
>         Mike
>
>
>         On Friday, September 11, 2015, Mike Pruett
>         <admin at mapsplease.net <mailto:admin at mapsplease.net>> wrote:
>
>             I didn't change anything since HomicideBaltimore, only
>             looked at the damage. 
>
>             Mike
>
>
>
>             On Friday, September 11, 2015, Elliott Plack
>             <elliott.plack at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>                 Mike, did you change anything since?
>
>                 Mike and I were chatting offline about this but I
>                 don't think either of us edited anything. I'm on
>                 mobile now, will need to check the versions when I get
>                 back to a desk.
>
>                 On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:48 Frederik Ramm
>                 <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>
>                     Hi,
>
>                     On 09/11/2015 05:08 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
>                     > I've added at least one changeset comment and
>                     have also sent a message.
>                     > The user has not responded to either.
>
>                     Given that the user has obviously read and ignored
>                     Paul's block message,
>                     I have had to put in a new block, and have
>                     reverted all his edits in
>                     http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/33960782.
>
>                     There were a few objects touched by
>                     HomicideBaltimore and later edited
>                     by someone else so that they could not be reverted
>                     cleanly:
>
>                     relation 1572798 to version 44
>                     relation 1793885 to version 9
>
>                     way 16678913 to version 14
>                     way 16667804 to version 2
>                     way 336294939 to version 9
>                     way 239149691 to version 3
>                     way 16710628 to version 3
>                     way 357518688 to version 1
>                     way 16667977 to version 5
>                     way 16667803 to version 2
>                     way 277183033 to version 1
>                     way 237042447 to version 1
>                     way 16667806 to version 2
>                     way 16720899 to version 8
>
>                     node 172413345 to version 4
>                     node 251856525 to version 2
>                     node 251856526 to version 2
>                     node 251856527 to version 2
>                     node 172413348 to version 6
>                     node 172413352 to version 5
>                     node 172413355 to version 5
>                     node 172413357 to version 5
>                     node 251856534 to version 1
>                     node 172413345 to version 4
>                     node 251856534 to version 1
>                     node 172413355 to version 5
>                     node 172413348 to version 6
>                     node 251856526 to version 2
>                     node 251856525 to version 2
>                     node 1631252463 to version 1
>                     node 251856527 to version 2
>                     node 172413357 to version 5
>                     node 172413352 to version 5
>
>                     I *can* force these objects back to their
>                     pre-HomicideBaltimore state
>                     but that would lose information potentially added
>                     by someone
>                     post-HomicideBaltimore. Perhaps someone could have
>                     a look and suggest
>                     the best course of action.
>
>                     Bye
>                     Frederik
>
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