On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has there been a discussion on how this problem can be addressed and what > the solution is? There's not one single solution. The general problem is that "vandalism" is not the main problem. Most of the problems are usually caused by people who do something by accident. Or they don't realize this is a real database of a real map. A suggestion several people have had for this is to attach comments to changesets. That way people could discuss them. I had a tiny amount of non-functional code for this, and I think Frederik was working on it. Another solution, not to vandalism, but other issues where users aren't aware they're working on a live DB might be that the first time they edit, in PL2, it could maybe pop something up saying "You're working on the live OSM database. This is not a test. Please be careful." But the ultimate answer is what many of us already do- use the History function on the main page, and use the OWL functions, to watch for edits, review them, and then report them as necessary. - Serge _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
