[OSM-talk] Destructive new 'contributor'

Andy Townsend ajt1047 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 22 11:35:39 UTC 2017


On 22/01/17 10:50, Dave F wrote:
> Hi
>
> Some one from China has made some meaningless & erroneous edit in 
> Bristol, UK which I've reverted, 

For completeness, that was

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/45364788

Unfortunately your comments there weren't really actionable - they don't 
explain what the contributor was doing wrong, and what they need to do 
better next time.

> but there's one in New Orleans which someone with local knowledge 
> needs to look at.
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/45365148#map=11/29.9244/-90.2323
>
> Is there someone here who can repost to Talk-US?

You can, if you subscribe to the list. :)

>
> On side note: Do users of editors like mapswithme receive changeset 
> comments?

It depends.  Many users of MAPS.ME just think it is "an app with some 
maps in it" and have no idea what OSM is.  This has been raised with the 
MAPS.ME developers a number of times (see 
https://github.com/mapsme/omim/issues ).  If they've signed up with a 
throw-away email address (or generally "don't read email"), they won't 
see it.

Separately to this, a lot of people are spending a lot of time trying to 
communicate with MAPS.ME users - and in some cases succeeding (though 
the response rate seems lower to me than with other mappers).  If 
communication fails then drop a mail to data at osmfoundation.org so that 
we can apply a 0-hour block on the account - force them to read a 
message before continuing mapping (but not actually stopping them from 
mapping - they can edit again as soon as they've read the message).  
This is useful when people have e.g. used a throw-away email account to 
sign up to an online service.  However, it's important to have explained 
mapping problems in changeset discussion first, since we'll inevitably 
refer back to previous discussions for a particular mapper such as 
http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=5167736 here.

Best Regards,

Andy




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