[OSM-talk] Detecting unwanted edits and vandalism

[Joakim Fors]

On 6 apr 2012, at 21:26, Adam Velkei wrote:

> Dear mappers,
> 
> I'm looking into ways to detect harmful map edits in an automated way.
> I'm fairly new to OSM and I'd like to hear about what typical mistakes have you seen while editing and what kind of changes would you consider to be vandalism.
> 
> Any insight would be much appreciated.
> 

The most recent examples I've found of unintentional "vandalism" is dragging one node waaaaay out of line from the other nodes in the way. Another example is mistakenly aligning all the nodes of a fairly long way (previously a curving path) into a straight line.

/Joakim