Re: [Talk-us] Best way to contacting users who are taking a class, but are possibly damaging data at same time?

[James Mast]

I noticed it via my RSS feed of Pittsburgh area changes.  Wasn't too hard to 
put 2+2 together when the same changeset comment kept popping up today with 
different users.


-James


From: Martijn van Exel 
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 6:49:22 PM
To: Ian McEwen
Cc: OSM Talk US
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Best way to contacting users who are taking a class, but 
are possibly damaging data at same time?

Hey,

I emailed Tom Mueller asking if it is indeed his class and if it is, to sign up 
for this list if he hasn't already and post a little bit of info on the class 
and the students' editing assignments. I am curious about this work and hope we 
can learn something about OSM in the classroom! I haven't looked at the edits 
myself but that's a keen eye, James! How did you discover this pattern?

Martijn

On Apr 11, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Ian McEwen 
> wrote:

I'm equally inexperienced in the contact department, so take what I say with 
that gain of salt.

This appears to be a class at California University of Pennsylvania 
(calu.edu), and the last of the users you link appears to be 
Dr. [Tom] Mueller himself.

Perhaps someone with some degree of officialness can contact the professor 
directly (via institutional email, I'd guess) to start the conversation in a 
good-faith fashion.

On April 11, 2016 3:13:39 PM MST, James Mast 
> wrote:
I've been noticing today in my local area that there are several users (6 of 
them [1]-[6]) using the same changeset comment of "GEO100 Dr. Mueller's class". 
 Several of these changesets are their first ever, so it seems to me that this 
class just started.  Only 1 of the accounts seems to be older than 1 month, and 
possibly might be the teacher [6], but can't be 100% sure.

Any recommendations on how to contact the users about this, or does somebody 
who has had previous experience with something similar want to take lead?  
Don't want to mess anything up that might give us some new mappers.

-James

[1] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/BradleyMann
[2] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/gdelre
[3] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/catiehamel
[4] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/glo6735
[5] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Cortazzo
[6] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TomM4





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Re: [Talk-us] Best way to contacting users who are taking a class, but are possibly damaging data at same time?

[Martijn van Exel]

Hey,

I emailed Tom Mueller asking if it is indeed his class and if it is, to sign up 
for this list if he hasn’t already and post a little bit of info on the class 
and the students’ editing assignments. I am curious about this work and hope we 
can learn something about OSM in the classroom! I haven’t looked at the edits 
myself but that’s a keen eye, James! How did you discover this pattern?

Martijn

> On Apr 11, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Ian McEwen  wrote:
> 
> I'm equally inexperienced in the contact department, so take what I say with 
> that gain of salt. 
> 
> This appears to be a class at California University of Pennsylvania (calu.edu 
> ), and the last of the users you link appears to be Dr. 
> [Tom] Mueller himself.
> 
> Perhaps someone with some degree of officialness can contact the professor 
> directly (via institutional email, I'd guess) to start the conversation in a 
> good-faith fashion.
> 
> On April 11, 2016 3:13:39 PM MST, James Mast  
> wrote:
> I've been noticing today in my local area that there are several users (6 of 
> them [1]-[6]) using the same changeset comment of "GEO100 Dr. Mueller's 
> class".  Several of these changesets are their first ever, so it seems to me 
> that this class just started.  Only 1 of the accounts seems to be older than 
> 1 month, and possibly might be the teacher [6], but can't be 100% sure.
> 
> Any recommendations on how to contact the users about this, or does somebody 
> who has had previous experience with something similar want to take lead?  
> Don't want to mess anything up that might give us some new mappers.
> 
> -James
> 
> [1] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/BradleyMann 
> 
> [2] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/gdelre 
> 
> [3] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/catiehamel 
> 
> [4] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/glo6735 
> 
> [5] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Cortazzo 
> 
> [6] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TomM4 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
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Re: [Talk-us] Best way to contacting users who are taking a class, but are possibly damaging data at same time?

[Ian McEwen]

I'm equally inexperienced in the contact department, so take what I say with 
that gain of salt. 

This appears to be a class at California University of Pennsylvania (calu.edu), 
and the last of the users you link appears to be Dr. [Tom] Mueller himself.

Perhaps someone with some degree of officialness can contact the professor 
directly (via institutional email, I'd guess) to start the conversation in a 
good-faith fashion.

On April 11, 2016 3:13:39 PM MST, James Mast  wrote:
>I've been noticing today in my local area that there are several users
>(6 of them [1]-[6]) using the same changeset comment of "GEO100 Dr.
>Mueller's class".  Several of these changesets are their first ever, so
>it seems to me that this class just started.  Only 1 of the accounts
>seems to be older than 1 month, and possibly might be the teacher [6],
>but can't be 100% sure.
>
>
>Any recommendations on how to contact the users about this, or does
>somebody who has had previous experience with something similar want to
>take lead?  Don't want to mess anything up that might give us some new
>mappers.
>
>
>-James
>
>
>[1] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/BradleyMann
>
>[2] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/gdelre
>
>[3] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/catiehamel
>
>[4] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/glo6735
>
>[5] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Cortazzo
>
>[6] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TomM4
>
>
>
>
>
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[Talk-us] Best way to contacting users who are taking a class, but are possibly damaging data at same time?

[James Mast]

I've been noticing today in my local area that there are several users (6 of 
them [1]-[6]) using the same changeset comment of "GEO100 Dr. Mueller's class". 
 Several of these changesets are their first ever, so it seems to me that this 
class just started.  Only 1 of the accounts seems to be older than 1 month, and 
possibly might be the teacher [6], but can't be 100% sure.


Any recommendations on how to contact the users about this, or does somebody 
who has had previous experience with something similar want to take lead?  
Don't want to mess anything up that might give us some new mappers.


-James


[1] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/BradleyMann

[2] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/gdelre

[3] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/catiehamel

[4] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/glo6735

[5] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Cortazzo

[6] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TomM4

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