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

[Safwat Halaby]

On Sun, 2017-10-29 at 22:24 +0100, Blake Girardot wrote:
> Safwat,
> 
> You are not helping things by unilaterally reverting things and
> accusing people of vandalism after you asked HOT to look into it.
> 
> At this point all I have seen from your first list was some newbie
> edits with some newbie mistakes and some stuff that looked totally
> fine when using the correct imagery.
> 
> and before you started reverting all of the andrew users work, I saw
> decent mapping and bad tagging from a new mapper. clearly not
> vandalism.
> 
> Granted I am not the best at reviewing things by changeset so I might
> have missed something, that is totally possible.
> 
> At this point I am going to stop looking into it since you have
> decided to take matters into your own hands with your own solutions.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Blake
> 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Safwat Halaby <swiftfast at gmx.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > Due to a mailing client config error, I'm unsure if I sent my
> > messages privately or to the list (or at all). At the risk of
> > repeating
> > myself:
> > 
> > The problems are not related to Imagery at all. They're blatantly
> > obvious mapping issues like:
> > - removing things and re-adding them for no apparent reason
> > - Adding buildings on top of pre-existing buildings
> > - Adding closed ways with area=yes instead of building=yes, or with
> > no
> > tags at all
> > - Intentional vandalism in some cases.
> > 
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> 


Dear blake, I'm afraid you're misunderstanding this.

I've not touched anything since contacting the DWG. I've done exactly 2
reverts prior to contacting them.

Revert 1:

The user has added duplicate buildings on top of already existing
buildings, except that those duplicate buildings had no building=yes
tag. I have not accused that user of vandalism and simply reverted. I
then realized this is not an isolated case, so left things for the DWG.

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

Revert 2:
User "Andrew" added things like "world's biggest refrigerator", "WHEEL
OF FORTUNE", "ANDREWS BIGGEST CAR", "Concrete Thing", etc. This is
blatantly obvious, high priority, destructive vandalism. Sure, the user
may have done some good changes in between, but why should I bother
spending time bisecting the edits of a vandalist? In cases like this,
you revert and ask questions later, and perhaps later extract the good
bits if you've got the time to work through the junk.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/53347778