[talk-au] Service Stations Imported?

2010-04-13 Thread Neal Schulz
Hi, It looks like some person (staehler) has bulk imported service stations multiple times with the same data; that had already been imported. Others seeing this? http://osm.org/go/uIWLpgodV-- Neal ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Service Stations Imported?

2010-04-13 Thread John Smith
On 13 April 2010 18:37, Neal Schulz neal.sch...@internode.on.net wrote: Hi, It looks like some person (staehler) has bulk imported service stations multiple times with the same data; that had already been imported. Have you asked them what happened?

Re: [talk-au] Service Stations Imported?

2010-04-13 Thread Neal Schulz
Hi, I have made contact - I hope they understand english. They seem to be german though I don't know - that's my best guess, not being a linguist at all. I await a response. Neal On 13/04/2010, at 6:49 PM, John Smith wrote: On 13 April 2010 18:37, Neal Schulz neal.sch...@internode.on.net

Re: [talk-au] Service Stations Imported?

2010-04-13 Thread John Smith
On 13 April 2010 19:39, Neal Schulz neal.sch...@internode.on.net wrote: Hi, I have made contact - I hope they understand english. They seem to be german though I don't know - that's my best guess, not being a linguist at all. Judging by edits he might, there has been a large number of roads

Re: [talk-au] Service Stations Imported?

2010-04-13 Thread John Smith
On 13 April 2010 19:56, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 April 2010 19:39, Neal Schulz neal.sch...@internode.on.net wrote: Hi, I have made contact - I hope they understand english. They seem to be german though I don't know - that's my best guess, not being a linguist at all.

Re: [talk-au] Service Stations Imported?

2010-04-13 Thread Liz
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, John Smith wrote: On 13 April 2010 19:39, Neal Schulz neal.sch...@internode.on.net wrote: Hi, I have made contact - I hope they understand english. They seem to be german though I don't know - that's my best guess, not being a linguist at all. Judging by edits he

Re: [talk-au] Service Stations Imported?

2010-04-13 Thread Liz
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Liz wrote: sorry to whoever has done this, but the veracity of the information is in doubt. I started off looking at Old Pricess Highway, because of the typo I have checked other online maps Whereis, who are usually more accurate have Younghusband, as do the Council,

Re: [talk-au] Service Stations Imported?

2010-04-13 Thread John Smith
On 13 April 2010 20:42, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: OSM suddenly has the same street names as Google for many streets, and a few interesting streets which have new names Very high odds that copying has occurred from Google Maps, except for the series of errors made in the process. The

[talk-au] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] User staehler has been duplicating data from google maps

2010-04-13 Thread Liz
---BeginMessage--- John, the user has replied, apologised, and asked for help in reverting several of his change sets. I will revert the following changesets for him unless beaten by the .au team: #4341783 #4341031 #4339058 #4338519 #4332119 #4330945 #4330174 #4330103 Bye Frederik --

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] User staehler has been duplicating data from google maps

2010-04-13 Thread John Henderson
On 14/04/10 07:25, Liz wrote: the user has replied, apologised, and asked for help in reverting several of his change sets. I will revert the following changesets for him unless beaten by the .au team: I've cleaned up the duplications in much of the ACT (but not all). I assume that won't

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] User staehler has been duplicating data from google maps

2010-04-13 Thread John Smith
On 14 April 2010 07:46, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: On 14/04/10 07:25, Liz wrote: the user has replied, apologised, and asked for help in reverting several of his change sets. I will revert the following changesets for him unless beaten by the .au team: I've cleaned up the

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] User staehler has been duplicating data from google maps

2010-04-13 Thread John Henderson
On 14/04/10 07:51, John Smith wrote: It's always better if they're reverted cleanly... OK - time I did some research on how to revert things I guess. John H ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] User staehler has been duplicating data from google maps

2010-04-13 Thread John Smith
On 14 April 2010 08:04, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: OK - time I did some research on how to revert things I guess. There is a handful of people that already do this, and imho it's best to leave it up to them to prevent accidents and edit wars.

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] User staehler has been duplicating data from google maps

2010-04-13 Thread Neal Schulz
Hi, As reported here the user has asked for help reverting... I will leave it to the people who know what they are doing to follow this up. Cheers Neal On 14/04/2010, at 7:25 AM, Liz wrote: From: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Date: 14 April 2010 6:56:09 AM To: John Smith

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] User staehler has been duplicating data from google maps

2010-04-13 Thread John Henderson
On 14/04/10 09:06, John Smith wrote: There is a handful of people that already do this, and imho it's best to leave it up to them to prevent accidents and edit wars. Understood. But at least I now see why it's best to leave potential reverts in their pristine state. John H