[OSM-talk] "helpful" remote correctional edits (or "please don't correct bank ATMs in the Sahara desert" - was: Re: Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries)

[Hauke Stieler]

Hi,

On 19.07.20 14:02, Andy Townsend wrote:

> 1) Please do check that the thing that you are "correcting" is
> plausible.  A bank ATM in the middle of the Sahara Desert is not.
> 
> 2) Do check if the thing, if at all unlikely, hasn't been added by a
> user who has had previous fantasy mapping reverted or who's changeset
> comments suggest that their edits might not entirely align with
> reality.  In the case of the "shopping centre adder", they've been given
> a 0-hour "message that they have to read before editing again" and their
> previous changesets show the comment "This changeset has been reverted
> fully or in part by changeset XYZ where the changeset comment is: ABC"

Blind reverts are also pretty bad. In my case, I talked to other people
in our community and only reverted some of the edits, which are very
unplausible (like "grade4" with "surface=paved" and imagery showing a
paved way).

But thanks for the insides, quite interesting and frightening what
happens around the world!


Hauke