In southern Illinois - http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.777&lon=-88.689&zoom=10&layers=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; no such highways have been built. A Google search for "Little Egypt Expressway", the name given to said motorways, gives no results, and neither do more general searches such as Marion Illinois bypass or Eldorado New Haven 141. (Major new highways like these would be covered by the news if nothing else.) None of them show up on Illinois Department of Transportation maps - http://www.dot.state.il.us/maps.html - as existing or proposed. (The small IL 13 trunk bypass of downtown Harrisburg, also added by bhj867, has been built, though I wouldn't trust the interchanges.)
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? He hasn't replied or edited since then. Concurrent with the sending of this message I am asking him to respond to the accusations and identify precisely which of his contributions are vandalism. If he does not do so, I would presume there is nothing to do but revert all his edits. If he does, the vandalism needs to be reverted, and there have definitely been changes to some of the existing and new ways since his edits. I will contact these lists if he does respond. I am unable to do this reversion. I am bringing this here because I cannot take care of the cleanup by myself, and any such cleanup that I would be forced to do if nobody helps would be incomplete and probably mess things up further. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk