[OSM-talk] Vandalism, was Vandalism in Trumpington

Renaud Martinet karouf at gmail.com
Sun Apr 27 10:30:57 BST 2008


There's a page on the wiki with a proposal about grouping changes into
 changesets that can easily be rolled back.

 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Changesets_and_Reverts


 On 4/27/08, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
 > 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
 >
 >
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