[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 27

[Bob]

Hi List,

The A57 and A607 edits below are incorrect to the best of my
knowledge.

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Regards
Bob
Lincoln UK

On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:56:27 +0100, you wrote:


>   3. Re: RR8 - Possible International Vandal (assistance required
>      around Lincoln, England) (Someoneelse)
>Message: 3
>Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:24:42 +0100
>From: Someoneelse <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk>
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal
>	(assistance required around Lincoln, England)
>To: Talk Openstreetmap <talk at openstreetmap.org>
>Message-ID: <4AA452CA.6000106 at mail.atownsend.org.uk>
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>
>Thomas Wood wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> Attention was drawn to the OSM user RR8 last night on IRC. It appears
>> that they have been producing /apparently/ deconstructive edits at a
>> high frequency since late Saturday evening (server time).
>> Edits primarily are the reclassification of highways to a different
>> level. This has occured frequently in the East Midlands (often
>> including a change of reference number that cannot be confirmed from
>> other sources), places in Ireland where under-construction motorways
>> have been marked as opened, and a few reclassifications elsewhere,
>> most notably Iceland.
>> 
>> The edits appear to look constructive, but are more likely to be
>> destructive. Ideally, someone local to the areas in question should
>> check a few of the changes, or we could get people from the mailing
>> list to consider the edits as a whole to decide what's to be done
>> about them.
>> 
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/RR8/edits
>
>Sorry to drag this up again, but I wonder if anyone around Lincoln could 
>confirm the status of the A15?  It got changed by RR8 from Primary to 
>Trunk as part of the series of edits referred to above (the ways 
>concerned are 29480041, 29480046, 5042808, 29520168, 29520045, 29480048, 
>29480047, 29479263, 29479262, 29462340, 29462344, 29460689, 29460690, 
>29457824, 29457818, 29457821, 5042796, 5042797, 5038270, 3713242, and 
>3708395).  Can anyone confirm whether it should be primary or should be 
>trunk?



>Also, the stretch of the A57 from the A1 to Lincoln needs looking at. 
>The ways include 13781670, 38366466, 13781669, 35580773, 35577435, 
>23160625, 13781668 and a few others.  In places it's been changed to the 
>A158 - I've no idea if that's correct (but based on the "hit rate" of 
>other RR8 edits is unlikely to be).


>
>Also, the Tritton Road area of Lincoln (ways 5052965, 5052933, 5038112, 
>3713127, 3713110 among others), and the changes to the A607 and B1178.




>
>See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GB_revert_request_log for 
>changeset details.