[OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Lester Caine<lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> Bjarki Sigursveinsson wrote:
>> I can confirm that the changes this user has made in Iceland are
>> completely disruptive and illogical. The user has gone all around the
>> country and either promoted or demoted roads in a seemingly random way
>> without any regard to the established conventions of the Icelandic
>> mapping community. I have tried communiating with this user but there
>> have been no responses. The damage that has been done is way too
>> widespread to be reverted manually.
>
> It does sound as if it has reached the point where NONE of his edits can
> be shown to be beneficial. So perhaps it is time simply to revert them
> all? Especially if he is unwilling to defend his actions?

I haven't looked through /all/ of his edits for Iceland. Currently he
has 880 ways and 306 nodes to his name (user=RR8 in the XML) and I
haven't gone through all his edits. But what I've looked at has been
100% harmful.

He's re-classified highways in a manner that's inconsistent, arbitrary
and completely ignores our previously established conventions[1].
Including marking some things that were highway=primary before as
highway=trunk and introducing highway=motorway in Iceland (which has
no motorways).

1. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Is:Map_Features#Highway