[OSM-talk] digg

[Andy Robinson]

I think the reference was related to one of the dig comments. i.e. someone
was asking how we might cope with vandalism I think.

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

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>To: Bruce Cowan
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>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] digg
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>On 9/20/06, Bruce Cowan <bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>	On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 09:05 +0100, Paul Dixon wrote:
>	> >> In case anyone hasn't seen it:
>	> >>
>	> >>
>http://digg.com/tech_news/Move_on_google_maps_a_web_2_0_map_service_is_here
><http://digg.com/tech_news/Move_on_google_maps_a_web_2_0_map_service_is_her
>e>
>	> >>
>	> >
>	> > IMO it highlights how much we need a new front page that
>emphasises OSM being
>	> > more than just a 'google maps killer'.
>	> That headline is just awful, and you can see from the comments
many
>have
>	> tried to click expecting some open source Google map killer and
>saw,
>	> well, the OpenStreetMap front page. I buried some of the more
>	> inflammatory comments and gave a boost to the more insightful ones
>:)
>	I also tried to do this as well.
>
>	It's a disaster!  Mostly these people are American, so you can't
>expect
>	them to know the dangers of crown copyright.
>
>	One thing I did notice was vandalism.  Is there any mechanism of
>	reverting changes done by a malicious person?
>
>
>Where?  And how did you notice it?
>
>I stumbled across a couple of edits in the Weybridge area that were clearly
>the result of someone trying to make the applet do something.  I think we
>are getting close to the point where we really need to be able to monitor
>edits.
>
>Something simple like a query that would list any changes by someone else
>to nodes/segments/ways that I originally created or have touched would be a
>start.  This would be a crude equivalent to the "watch this page" function
>on a wiki.  Alternatively a "watch this tile" function would be another way
>of doing it.
>
>If someone edits something in the Weybridge area then I really really want
>to know about it.  Either someone is helping which is good or someone is
>vandalising which is bad and I need to repair the damage.
>
>Etienne
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