[OSM-talk] Vandalism

[Mike Thompson]

Chris, Andy,

Thanks!  I haven't found any valid edits from this user.  He/she has been
tagging any patch of bare ground as building=house.  In some cases there
might be a building inside that bare patch of ground (difficult to tell
with the imagery), but in most cases there is nothing.

Mike

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26/02/2016 20:55, Mike Thompson wrote:
>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37315914
>>
>> Should I just manually delete, or would it be better for someone to do a
>> revert.
>>
>
> In a a case where someone has made a few valid edits and then something
> that obviously isn't, I'd personally start with something like "I think you
> may have left your keyboard unattended and your seven-year-old brother has
> been playing".  It's an (artificial) way of saying "this is not OK" without
> saying "you did a bad thing". I'd add this publically to the changeset
> discussion so everyone can see what's happening.  I'd then go on to explain
> why it's not OK to do things like this in OSM, and to point to places where
> it might be OK (like OpenGeoFiction, though I'm not sure they're big on
> pictures of animals).
>
> I'd also check the previous edits, to make sure that there was nothing
> hidden in there that was also dodgy, and I'd revert the dodgy stuff.  It
> looks like a straight revert should work here (JOSM revert plugin*).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy (SomeoneElse, a member of the DWG, but all of the above is doable
> without any DWG "special powers").
>
> * a slight caveat applies at the moment - when I last looked, the latest
> version of JOSM's reverter plugin didn't work with the tested version of
> JOSM.  If prompted to update plugins by JOSM don't, and you should be OK.
>
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