[OSM-talk] Mechanism for reporting vandalism

[Erik Johansson]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
[..]
> 5) Click the changeset link to examine the edits

No there hasn't been much talk about this, and yes the tools available
are not geared for spotting mistake edits. Just start a wikipage
called Vandalism reporting and list the ones you have found.

On help I asked how to understand if a changeset, and listed osmdiff
and osm history visualizer both tools that help you investigate and
examine a changset:

http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/7077/investigating-changesets
http://osmhv.openstreetmap.de/changeset.jsp?id=8987983
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmdiff