[Talk-us] "rogue" country-wide bus route edits

[Martijn van Exel]

On 6/18/21 4:32 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I believe this must have been discussed on the US slack but I'd like to
> raise it here as well. DWG has had a number of complaints about 100%
> un-responsive mappers adding and modifying bus routes across the US.
> This seems to be an organised editing effort, and many different mappers
> have tried to engage them about their sources and occasional problems,
> but to no avail. DWG has blocked a few accounts with a short-time
> "please talk to us" message, no reaction; then a longer block, then they
> simply created new accounts.
> 
> DWG has not reverted the contributions by the first set of accounts, but
> reverted all contributions made by the block-circumvention later
> accounts as a matter of principle.
> 

Thanks for taking action on this. It sounds like the appropriate course 
of action to me. I hadn't noticed this yet myself but I haven't had time 
to map or look at whodidit for the SLC area much the past week.

I don't know what company these accounts are associated with but I'd 
sure like to find out as well.

Martijn