[OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal

[Thomas Wood]

2009/9/2 Richard Bullock <rb357 at cantab.net>:
>>I'll go over what the mapper did in Ireland, which to me is the
>>clearest case of (at least) reckless incompetence (an ill that can be
>>cured through communication, but only with two-way communication):
>>
>>* All motorway under construction marked complete. Including adding
>>amateurish (wrong way, driving on right) stubs to make the pieces
>>connect.
>>
>>* Most long-distance dual-carriageways up-tagged to motorways,
>>including the changing of refs (e.g. N7-M7)
>>
>>* Slip roads on the up-classified sections retagged to motorway (not
>>motorway_link)
>>
>>In all, about 2-200km of road were retagged with no basis whatsoever
>
>
> But some dual carriageway *has* been upgraded to motorway recently  - August
> 28th - 294km worth - (including some sections under construction)
>
> See http://www.transport.ie/upload/general/10193-PRESS_RELEASE1_-0.DOC
>
> Having said that, I reviewed some changes done in Derbyshire in the UK and
> they looked horribly wrong. Didn't seem to move any nodes, but road numbers
> were changed, road classifications changed without any clear indication as
> to why. Some highway=primary reclassified as highway=secondary with
> fabricated B-road numbers. Some fairly minor roads upgraded to
> highway=secondary or highway=primary, again with fabricated route numbers.
> I'll be happy to revert these particular edits.
>
> Most of the edits are not in areas I know well enough. Most seem to be in
> Iceland.
>
> Richard

Please leave the ways untouched for now, it'll be easier to revert the
whole changeset in the long run.

-- 
Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)