[OSM-talk] Help! Widescale mass problems introduced by user exMajor

[Charlie Ferrero]

User exMajor (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/eXmajor) has been 
causing a lot of trouble in the UAE.

For months (s)he has been blindly mapping using Bing, not account for 
offsets, drawing buildings around stationary airplanes [1], mapping 
tracks as highway=construction[2], mapping mangroves as scrub [3] and so 
on.  I've repeatedly asked him/her to stop but to no avail.  If I revert 
the edits he just reverts them back.  Now in a series of changesets 
starting roughly around the 14th April this same user has caused 
wholesale vandalism in Abu Dhabi city, deleting roads, adding hundreds 
of parking nodes [4], deleting entire districts, changing minor roads to 
tertiary etc. Here 
(http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=24.43726&lon=54.41217&zoom=17&layers=M) 
is a typical example, with a block's worth of roads removed, leaving 
three orphan segments.  Just pan around and see the mess.

It appears that I can not stop this user, so I'm appealing to the 
community to help stop this before he screws up the entire UAE.

[1] 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=25.580147&lon=55.653601&zoom=18&layers=M
[2] 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=25.580147&lon=55.653601&zoom=18&layers=M
[3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=25.77614&lon=55.95995&zoom=15&layers=M
[4] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=24.43389&lon=54.4482&zoom=16&layers=M

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Charlie