[OSM-talk] Vandalism

[Mike Thompson]

DWG has been contacted.

Changeset comment has been entered along the lines Andy suggested.

I am not at a place at the moment where I can revert, if someone else whats
to handle that would be great.

Mike

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26/02/2016 21:09, Mike Thompson wrote:
>
>
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/G%20Jenny>
> ...
> appear to be of very poor quality, or out right vandalism.
>
> How should this be handled?
>
>
> In this particular case, the changeset comments suggest it's a remote HOT
> project ("#hotosm-project-1401#MissingMaps #CHAI Source=WorldView-2,
> Digital Globe, NextView, 28 Sep 2013"), so I'd probably mention it on the
> #hot IRC channel.  They may be able to pin down where the edits were made
> from and work out who the instructors / supervisors of the "missing maps"
> session was (if it was one of their "group edit" sessions).
> Notwithstanding "Doodle the Dog", I would cut new mappers a bit of slack
> though - I'm sure my first 27 edits were a bit rubbish too.
>
> On the more general point, especially where mappers don't seem to be
> "getting the hang of things" after extended periods editing, I'd just try
> and concentrate on what they need to do to get from where they are to where
> everyone would like them to be.  This normally means things like "zoom in a
> bit before editing" and "don't over-trace from aerial imagery if you're not
> sure what it is".
>
> It is difficult though - we have a process for dealing with vandalism
> (which is thankfully rare) that works well*, but as a project we deal less
> well with edits that are well-meaning but "just a bit rubbish".  We are
> getting better though - http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussions is
> full of people being polite, helpful and trying to make especially new
> users better mappers.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
>
> * as Chris said, email the data working group (which is actually
> data at osmfoundation.org).
>
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