[OSM-talk] data issues in London?

[Dave Stubbs]

2008/11/25 Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk>:
> 2008/11/25 Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com>:
>>
>> I have just uploaded an image of Europe which shows that the main data
>> problem emanates from London although there also seems to be a problem from
>> Holland to the same point on the Portuguese coast?
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterito/3058044385/
>>
>
>
> A user in Portugal has somehow managed to appropriate numerous node IDs.
> He's effectively moved them from where ever they were, to Portugal.
>
> I've contacted him to ask how it might have happened.
> He seems to have been using merkaartor, but whether it has anything to
> do with it, I don't know.
>
> I'm working on a revert script to tidy this up.
>
> Dave
>

This should now be fixed. I reverted 420 nodes back to their London locations.

Moral of the story is this:

Never find a random .osm file, edit some nodes in it, then upload the
changes to the OSM server.
A mess you will cause. :-)

Dave