Can we check their IP? Didn't something similar happen with some Google employees vandalizing OSM a few years ago?
Chris On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Tom Chance <t...@acrewoods.net> wrote: > On 23 September 2013 16:01, OpenStreetmap HADW <osmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > * changesets with the same comment that doesn't correspond with the >> > thing they have traced, like "This is a House" >> >> Unfortunately, like subjects on many PC support forums, the average >> contributor doesn't seem to be able to make useful changeset comments. >> Whilst they are not useful comments, I'm not sure they are any worse >> than maybe the majority. >> > > Have a look at them all. There is a difference between comments that are > not useful, and comments that have nothing to do with the edit at all. I > know all about comments because I contact every new user who makes an edit > in my part of London, and the suggestion I most often make is to leave > descriptive comments because they leave none, or useless ones. But this > user comes back every week or so and makes another damaging edit with a > misleading, identical changeset comment. That doesn't look like a string of > innocent mistakes to me. > > >> >> > * lots of features deleted, in a way that doesn't look like an accident >> >> I only looked in detail at one. > > > Have a look at more, then, as I have! > > Some have no valid geometry at all, just noise. Some do, along with > deletions and bad geometry. What sort of person remains very confused over > many months, deleting and adding data in a useless way and adding comments > like "this is a house" or "this is a nursing home" again and again, and > ignores messages from another user offering help? I came to my conclusion > after looking through lots, and I appreciate it's a big step to block and > revert but I have been watching this user for some time and it looks to me > like vandalism. If I set out to vandalise OSM, the most clever way would be > to keep making lots of small, innocent changes that would probably be > missed. > > Regards, > Tom > > -- > http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > -- Life is not the amount of times you breathe, is the moments that take your breath away. To all things comes an end. And to all things comes a beginning. Cred in inspirat, nu in expirat. in vise, nu in somn. In trait, nu in existat.
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