[OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

[Paul Norman]

> From: Christian Quest [mailto:cquest at openstreetmap.fr]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 7:11 AM
> To: Frederik Ramm
> Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance
> 
> 2012/9/18 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
> >
> > Just to clarify this one point: The user had been contacted by DWG
> > beforehand because he had imported several millions of objects under
> > his account, and asked to continue his work in accordance with the
> > import guidelines, using a separate import account. He ignored that
> > request and was only blocked *after* that.
> >
> 
> No, this user has originally been contacted because he deleted a large
> amount of buildings in one town and was suspected of vandalism. It has
> been confirmed very quickly that it was not vadalism, but an simple
> update of data in the town.

I'm not sure if you're aware of the previous communications with the user,
but you seem to be misinformed about the nature them.

Messages were sent on September 14th and 13th about the need to use a
dedicated account. A previous note was sent in March reminding them in the
context of a note about a broken upload of 50k nodes.