Re: [talk-au] Perth unusual edits
On 25/02/11 11:35, Steve Bennett wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:59 AM, 4x4falcon wrote: I have reported this and as yet osm will not put a block on the user Who is "osm" in this context? Steve osm data working group as per all vandalism requests. Cheers Ross ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Perth unusual edits
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:59 AM, 4x4falcon wrote: > I have reported this and as yet osm will not put a block on the user Who is "osm" in this context? Steve ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Bulk loading all the Australian Statistical Geography Standard into the OSM - a query from the Australian Bureau of Statistics [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 15:12 +1100, {withheld} wrote:
> However I still hold the community should accept the offer and be
> grateful. Carping about internal politics just looks bad. And whiny. And
> doesn't encourage anybody else ever offering similar largesse ever again.
Well, to be fair, the community would accept his data, but in 4 weeks it
will be removed from the OSM database and it will be unable to be
included in any future OSM.
Whether you think this is internal politics or not, it is the law and as
Marcus clearly explained what terms the data would be released under,
the fact that some within the OSM project have chosen to no longer
utilise data sources such as his is the problem, and theyre the ones you
should be talking to, not us.
David
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[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Crisis mapping - assistance requested for infrastructure mapping in Christchurch
-- Forwarded message -- From: Robin Paulson Date: 25 February 2011 10:42 Subject: [OSM-talk] Crisis mapping - assistance requested for infrastructure mapping in Christchurch To: OSM Talk , h...@openstreetmap.org Hi OSM mappers, As most of you are probably aware, we had a severe earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand this week, killing over 100 people and demolishing or damaging hundreds, possibly thousands of the following: buildings roads bridges water mains electricity supplies sewage drains other major infrastructure. NZ mappers have been discussing how they can help, and we have decided it would be useful to trace as many of these pieces of infrastructure as possible in the affected area. Christchurch has very good Bing imagery taken last year, allowing pre-quake items to be traced quite accurately. High quality post-earthquake imagery will be available in the next 24-48 hours [1], to enable further tracing [2], to show the current situation. Both pre- and post-quake tracing are requested, to allow appraisal of the differences caused by the earthquake. If anyone can help, please head over to http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-43.563&lon=172.7&zoom=11 and lend a hand. Tracing of altered natural features would also be useful, although infrastructure is of more importance for the moment Any further questions, please ask. [1] we're not sure where or how yet - perhaps someone can assist here also, getting the images into Potlatch/JOSM/etc.? [2] with appropriate tags for damaged/re-arranged items - would the likes of 'date_on' be appropriate here? please advise if you can suggest the most suitable tags to use thanks, -- robin http://tangleball.org.nz/ - Auckland's Creative Space http://openstreetmap.org.nz/ - Open Street Map New Zealand http://bumblepuppy.org/blog/ ___ talk mailing list t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Perth unusual edits
I also meant to say please don't change anything in this changeset http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/6692493 as I want to use it to try reverting the vandalised items in it. Which I will do middle of March. Cheers Ross ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] Perth unusual edits
Hi All, As I pointed out here: http://www.mail-archive.com/talk-au@openstreetmap.org/msg05776.html in june last year there were a number of strange edits occuring. Since then and particularly in December there have been a number of cases of vandalism by this user. I have reported this and as yet osm will not put a block on the user involved giving them the benefit of the doubt as they are yet to answer any email sent to them. Given their pattern of editing (month on month off) I suspect they are a fly in fly out type worker. I have corrected most of the bad edits, streets and roads that don't exist dual carriage ways where there really is only one, etc. Looking through their changesets they have made lots of minor changes then put in something that is vandalism. So you will find that anything by this user that is version 1 is suspect. eg: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/6692493 In this changeset the Bannigan Avenue (way 90085986) (incorrect spelling as well) is totally fictious and therefore to me vandalism. I have left it there for the moment to show to osm that the user is doing this. Looking at the nearmap imagery of 8 Jan 2011 this road does not exist but was entered on 18 December 2010. http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-32.129823,115.847048&z=18&t=k&nmd=20110108 Nor does it exist on the Bing or Yahoo imagery or maps. When you look at the rest of this changeset you also find that Cockburn Road has been made a dual carriage way where it is predominantly single carriage way with a few traffic island sections as depicted by the original primary way that was deleted as the first way of the changeset. I believe this person is the same person that was user Brendan_Cherry as looking through their edits the previous vandal road names occur (eg Chloe Thurkle Road). Now what to do. A revert of all their changesets is not practical as I've already dry run it and most of them have already been modified. I have also run a search on all their version 1 edits and most of them are suspect. I have rectified some as that's how I found the errors in the first place. As they have not responded to either Frederick or myself I suspect they are on their work cycle this month and will not be back until next month. My suggestion is a block on their editing until they respond satisfactorily (apology for the vandalism and guarantee of not doing it again). If they do not respond within a reasonable time (end of March) then a block on their IP and email address as well (I know there are ways around this but it's a start). Cheers Ross ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
