[OSM-talk] Mechanism for reporting vandalism

[Arun Ganesh]

Because there are no simple tools for reverting changesets and your regular
osm user (like me) may not be comfortable performing such an operation for
fear of messing things up even more, there is a need for a simpler mechanism
to report errors and dubious changests that can be reviewed by someone else
and reverted. With more novice users coming in and the simplicity of
potlatch 2, i have started seeing more map graffiti and mass deletions in
India and can only expect things to get worse. Because there are not enough
active users to monitor the data for such a large area, most of these
changesets go unnoticed for months leading to more complications.

Has there been a discussion on how this problem can be addressed and what
the solution is?

This is what i currently do when i notice that data has suddenly gone
missing:
1) Open the are in potlatch 1
2) Show the deleted ways 'U'
3) Show history of the deleted way 'H'
4) Click more to open details page of the way
5) Click the changeset link to examine the edits
6) Open my email
7) Send a mail to frederik with the subject 'revert request'
8) Paste the link of the changeset and kindly ask him to revert
9) say thanks in advance

I'm having a hunch there's an easier way to do this that i'm not aware of?


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