Andy Allan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:21 PM, David Earl<da...@frankieandshadow.com> wrote: >> Peter Miller wrote: >>> 3 more changesets today from Liam123 for reversion. >>> >>> I have added them to the revert page and have copied this email the >>> Andy. >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GB_revert_request_log >> You got there before me - I was just looking at those too. >> >> He's making really subtle edits - like moving a supermarket a few >> metres, putting a little hook on the end of a railway bridge, things >> like that, which undermine the accuracy of the map but wouldn't be >> obvious just looking at it, even if you were the author. He moved the >> River Yare estuary by a few tens of metres, which from anyone else I'd >> have accepted as a surveyed correction. He moved a bit of boundary in >> the Orwell estuary near Ipswich and changed a railway to goods with >> lines=8, which again is just plausible but I don't trust it. > > I've updated the wiki page. The two changesets I have taken action on* > are vandalism, and I'd be happy to stand up and explain myself. The > other two changesets contain literally hundreds of little node moves > of coastlines and maritime admin boundaries. Since I can't tell > whether they are vandalism or improvements, I'm going to leave my > suspicions to one side and wait for any compelling evidence before I > take action.
I just installed Frederick's revert perl utility and tried it out on the first of these changesets, which I do believe to be vandalism. I think it's only a lot of edits because he dragged a small number of ways to new positions, the effect of which is to move lots of nodes. David _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb