[OSM-talk] Sudden influx of bad HOTosm edits in West Bank

Safwat Halaby swiftfast at gmx.com
Tue Nov 7 05:53:22 UTC 2017


Hi, and thank you for the cleanup efforts!

Please note that in some cases, people added buildings on top of
buildings. Depending on your QA software, this can be hard to spot
because it does not show up in diffs.

> Have you already corrected or
> reverted some of the errors that were noted?

I reverted two serious cases:

mdavenport1985(uid 6744070) was adding nonsense:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/53501083
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/53429550

The Data Working group stepped in to stop him:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mdavenport1985/blocks

A_N_D_R_E_W(uid 6876174) was intentionally vandalizing:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/53347778

I also reverted one non serious case of buildings on top of buildings:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/53347357



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