[OSM-talk] Odd edits by rowers2 in Cameroon

[john whelan]

Looking more closely he's dropped in some 24,000 objects in this bit of
Cameroon most are useful and legit.

I've dropped him a message and hopefully he'll clean up the the data.

Thanks John

On 11 November 2015 at 18:08, Michał Brzozowski <www.haxor at gmail.com> wrote:

> I meant they are purely fictional. He created these rows of buildings
> to test something, like different 3d attributes or whatever. They
> shouldn't exist in OSM.
>
> The legit ones I refered to are eg.
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/341996660 which are just at one
> corner of your bbox.
>
> Michał
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The buildings are not in Cameroon though.
> >
> > I wrote him a changeset comment:
> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34368108#map=3/31.80/21.27
> >
> > Polyglot
> >
> > 2015-11-11 23:49 GMT+01:00 Michał Brzozowski <www.haxor at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> I seem to know why he's doing this and at users:Poland forum he was
> >> instructed not to do this. He's testing rendering of OSM-3D in some
> >> web maps (f4map?).
> >>
> >> Feel free to delete it. For the future, use changeset comments first,
> >> if you didn't. It his activity persists, go DWG on him.
> >>
> >> The takeaway is that whoever is he testing against, should offer some
> >> testing with our dev database or .osm files.
> >>
> >> As per point on the second column, these are legit buildings, visible on
> >> Bing.
> >>
> >> Michał
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:27 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Visible at
> >> >
> >> > 7.4396667 7.4711556
> >> >
> >> > 15.5891705 15.6047916
> >> >
> >> > There is nothing visible in Bing or Mapbox but that doesn't mean much
> >> > but
> >> > the shape and detail of the edits are suspicious to me and they seem
> to
> >> > have
> >> > made a very large number of edits recently in their history.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Could someone be nice and take a peek?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks John
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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