[OSM-talk] User umehlig and some really nasty edits

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

80n [mailto:80n80n at gmail.com] wrote:
>Sent: 06 February 2008 9:12 PM
>To: Andy Robinson (blackadder)
>Cc: Dave Stubbs; talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] User umehlig and some really nasty edits
>
>If the server were to provide the original timestamp as an additional
>attribute, and reject if it didn't match on upload, then problems like this
>could be prevented.
>
>It would also be a proper solution to update conflicts.
>
>80n
>

That sounds like a very logical and elegant solution.

Cheers

Andy

>
>
>On Feb 6, 2008 6:05 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder)
><blackadderajr at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>	Dave Stubbs wrote:
>	>Sent: 06 February 2008 5:58 PM
>	>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>	>Subject: [OSM-talk] User umehlig and some really nasty edits
>
>	>
>	>I don't know who/what they are, but there are a large number of low
>	>number nodes that have been utterly destroyed. Basically 522-603
and
>a
>	>few others in the 1000's have been moved halfway round the planet.
>	>
>	>I fixed node 1205, but it's going to be making a mess of the mapnik
>map.
>	>Is there an easy way to find these and revert them?
>	>
>	>And can we make the server reject edits which move nodes further
>than
>	>a certain distance?
>
>
>	This sounds like the problem we had before with a user changing the
>negative
>	ID numbers for uncreated items in JOSM, or perhaps creating their
own
>manual
>	data and not using negative ID's. Removing the negative of course
>changes
>	the item entirely.
>
>	Cheers
>
>	Andy
>
>
>
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