Re: [Talk-us] Months-old vandalism needs to be taken care of

2010-05-05 Thread Tyler Ritchie
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:

 Response from bhj867:



 Didn't realize this map was supposed to be a
 real map. Just through some stuff in there. Thought it was a game or
 something. Come to find out it's more like Wikipedia.


That right there says more about the introductory documentation than really
anyone else has been able to articulate.
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Re: [Talk-us] Months-old vandalism needs to be taken care of

2010-05-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi,

Tyler Ritchie wrote:
 That right there says more about the introductory documentation than 
 really anyone else has been able to articulate.

I'm struggling to find *any* method of signing up to OSM and modifying 
data that makes it look like a game.

Bye
Frederik

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Re: [Talk-us] Months-old vandalism needs to be taken care of

2010-05-04 Thread Richard Welty

On 5/4/10 7:09 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:

In southern Illinois -
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.777lon=-88.689zoom=10layers=B000FTF
- user bhj867 has added a number of new highways, most notably the
motorways at Murphysboro, Carbondale, Marion, and Harrisburg, and the
trunk from Eldorado to New Haven. But it appears that these are fake;
   

I suggest that you drop markers in http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/
A local mapper may see them ad investigate.

and any such cleanup that I
would be forced to do if nobody helps would be incomplete and probably
mess things up further.
   
i think it's also a really bad idea to see yourself as being forced to 
do anything
to the map that might make things worse. if you're not local and can't 
do a ground

survey, then just bring it up and move on.

richard

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[Talk-us] Months-old vandalism needs to be taken care of

2010-05-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Richard Welty wrote:
On 5/4/10 7:09 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
 In southern Illinois -
 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.777lon=-88.689zoom=10layers=B000FTF
 - user bhj867 has added a number of new highways, most notably the
 motorways at Murphysboro, Carbondale, Marion, and Harrisburg, and the
 trunk from Eldorado to New Haven. But it appears that these are fake;

I suggest that you drop markers in http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/
A local mapper may see them ad investigate.

It doesn't need to be investigated; it's definite vandalism. The only
thing that needs investigation is which of his edits are not.

 and any such cleanup that I
 would be forced to do if nobody helps would be incomplete and probably
 mess things up further.

i think it's also a really bad idea to see yourself as being forced to
do anything
to the map that might make things worse. if you're not local and can't
do a ground
survey, then just bring it up and move on.

And if the only local is the vandal? The US is a huge place, and this
would amount to an open invitation to vandals (who don't even need to
be local; they can just choose an area likely to have no local
mappers).

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Re: [Talk-us] Months-old vandalism needs to be taken care of

2010-05-04 Thread Richard Welty
On 5/4/10 10:40 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
 On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 07:09 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:

 On April 28 I contacted bhj867 through OSM with a simple question:
 does the Little Egypt Expressway have another name, since I can't find
 anything about it under that name?
  
 Heh, he also gave it fake TIGER tags!  Funny stuff.

the date on the change set wouldn't happen to be April 1st, would it?

richard


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Re: [Talk-us] Months-old vandalism needs to be taken care of

2010-05-04 Thread Richard Welty
On 5/4/10 10:32 PM, Alex S. wrote:
 Richard Welty wrote:

 On 5/4/10 10:40 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
  
 Heh, he also gave it fake TIGER tags!  Funny stuff.


 the date on the change set wouldn't happen to be April 1st, would it?

  
 Apr 13
 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4415970

someone didn't have their joke prepared in a timely manner.

richard


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