[OSM-talk] Vandalism, was Vandalism in Trumpington

[David Earl]

On 27/04/2008 07:58, Jeffrey Martin wrote:
> Does the project have any long term plans on how to deal
> with vandalism?
> 
> Should some features be locked?
> 
> Do we need some kind of hierarchy with block captains
> and country coordinators? (I don't want that.)

I doubt we'll know for sure, but like other incidents in my area, I 
don't think this was deliberate vandalism, I suspect it was someone who 
didn't know what they were doing, maybe didn't know they were making 
live changes. This one differs in that it is quite extensive, but since 
all the changes were based on existing nodes, I doubt there was any 
surveying involved - it looks to me like someone thought it would be a 
good idea to change their favourite route to a cycleway, and trampled on 
anything connecting to it along the way.

David