[Talk-us] Sabotage or a really bad bot?

Rihards richlv at nakts.net
Mon Apr 3 08:54:34 UTC 2017


On 2017.04.03. 04:26, Charlotte Wolter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>         I came across a really weird situation while doing a Maproulette
> change.
>         In Rustberg, a small town in rural Virginia
> (http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=id#map=16/37.2772/-79.1011),
> almost every driveway has been named after the street it intersects. In
> addition, numerous very short "driveways" have been created, some of
> which go nowhere.
>         The edits all were done four years ago, it seems. Here is the
> message about the edits: "Edited almost 4 years ago by bot-mode
> Version #2 ยท Changeset #15805152."
>         I removed most of the names and the "driveways" in town, but
> they continued well out of town, and finally I gave up. Could someone
> take a look at this and, perhaps, reverse the change set?
>         Thanks

the driveways, did you check with sat imagery ?
were they at least near what looked like roads or not ?

> Charlotte
> 
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