[OSM-talk] Is edit adding private dataset created specially for OSM considered an import or not?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Feb 3, 2021, 11:14 by pangose at riseup.net:

> Could you provide a link? This is a judgement best made by the mapper
> community in the area it concerns. We in Sweden have recently become
> somewhat more aware of sneaky imports and got 90,000 small changesets
> from hacked accounts reverted some month ago.
>
> This is something different. I would probably start by asking for a
> source on the changeset. If no communication is possible with the
> uploader I would find it pretty suspect and discuss it in the community.
>
Communication is happening in this specific case, so hopefully this will
be fixed. But in case that I run into something similar (or they will refuse
to fix data here) I want to know is it OK to consider it as an import or not.

See https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/0.1634/29.3459

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/0.1634/29.3459 is what triggered
my actions (933 ways in multipolygon relation, tagged as landuse=farmland,
with severe data quality issues, see for example
https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/2523318
https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/2523319
)

See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny/deimport_landuse_in_central_Africa,_mostly_East_Congo

See https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/20451 for my idea how to prevent
reoccurence (or at least make more clear that multipolygons requiring
high-end computers to edit are a poor idea).
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