[OSM-talk] Make OSM more Wiki-like

Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-list at deelkar.net
Wed Jan 17 01:15:52 GMT 2007


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Hi everyone

I was wondering if there is a way to make OSM more wiki-like, especially
with respect to the history of any item, allowing to see who has edited
what and when for every contributor, that way if things happen like last
year's auto-conversion of segments in Hamburg to highway=unclassified
tagged ways, one can if not easily revert, then at least notify the
person doing the conversions that he is doing more harm than good.
Actually having a sort-of "watchlist" for the nodes, segments and ways
one has created or modified would help even more.

I'm bringing this issue up again, because a similar thing has happened
in Bremen, where I and Etric Celine map, and there were segments that
should be ways with railway=rail or railway=tram that had been converted
to highway=unclassified ways. luckily all my ways that had
highway=unclassified had also the name attribute, so selecting the
automatically converted ways in JOSM was not too difficult, and I only
accidentally killed 2 ways of Etric Celine which didn't have the name
tag (I notified him of my proceedings).

So in my eyes OSM basically needs a better vandalism control, of the
sort of the "many eyeballs" principle, with adequate tools for everyone
to at least identify the perpetrator of (accidental or willfull) vandalism.

my 2 cents

Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie


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