[OSM-talk] Need help!

[Tom Hughes]

Frederik Ramm wrote:

>>>> * : See http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html
> 
>>> Heh. Dmitry Oleynov is the most destructive mapper. For two days (8-9 
>>> of  Sept) he has removed 75139 nodes! But created only 888.
>>
>> His actions do not appear to be malicious though - in fact he emailed 
>> Steve on Tuesday after he realised what he had done asking for help to 
>> revert the changes.
>>
>> That got passed on to me, but I don't any way of reverting stuff, so I 
>> suggested last night that he come here and ask for help.
> 
> I have a script which I could use to
> 
> 1. create a list of nodes and ways edited by a certain user in a certain 
> time frame, planet-wide
> 
> 2. load the history of all these objects from the current database
> 
> 3. for each object that has not been touched by someone else since, 
> revert it to the state it was before the user touched it.
> 
> If you want me to do that for changes by Dmitry (and if I may assume 
> that he is happy with this) then just give me a time frame and the 
> username.
> 
> This procedure has two disadvantages: 1. it will also remove "good" 
> changes by that user in that time frame, and 2. it will NOT touch 
> anything modified by someone else - this means that wherever people have 
> attempted to manually repair the damage, things will remain in the 
> "manually repaired" state and not be reverted.

Dmitry - are you happy for Frederik to do the above to revert your edits?

Tom

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