Thanks for contacting DWG, Michael.
It is not limited to tracks=2 by the way - I have seen examples of four tracks, all with tracks=4... --colin On 2015-10-07 10:56, Michael Reichert wrote: > Hi. > > Am 2015-10-07 um 10:03 schrieb Colin Smale: > >> I am not sure it would be vandalism - It is more likely a >> misunderstanding of the intention of the tracks=* tag. But it is very >> damaging, and potentially hard to revert as this has been going on for >> some time and newer edits may have been made. It may need something like >> this: >> >> * Get all changesets from WJtW >> * get all railway tracks from those changesets with tracks>1 >> * search back through the history to find where the tag was added >> * see if it was user WJtW that did it >> * If so, remove the tracks=* tag. > > I (a German railway mapper) have been notified by another user about > WJtW's edits last week. I [1] have already started reverting parts of > his edits. That's the way I did it: > > - Search for railway=rail + tracks=2 via Overpass Turbo (with meta as > output variant) > - Pick out one way of the result. If its last edited was done by WJtW, I > had a lookat the changeset which did this edit using Achavi. If the > changeset was mostly adding of tracks=2, I reverted it. Sometimes I did > partial reverts if only parts of the changeset were bad. > - If the last edit of the way was done by another user, I had a look > into the way's history and looked for the bad changeset(s) there. > > You have to repeat this until the area which you are going to clean is > free of tracks=2. > > Note: If you are looking at the area between Dortmund and Cologne - > there are lots of ways with tracks=2 from old times (about 4 to 7 years > ago) because tracks=2 has not been removed when the second track was > added to OSM. > >> But in Dutch (as you will know) there is a wonderful expression about >> trying to mop up (a flooded bathroom) while the tap is still running. We >> need to turn the tap off and stop this getting any worse. >> >> It's starting to sound like a candidate for a user block until the user >> engages in some kind of dialog. > > I have asked DWG to block him (0-hour-block) because he has been > notified about his errors several times: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34049497 (21 days ago in German) > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34264606 (11 days ago in English) > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34313237 (7 days ago in English) > > It is not the first time that a user used tracks=2 the wrong way. There > were/are users from time to time who add tracks=2 because there was a > map by ITO rendering tracks=2. I asked the people from ITO to shut down > this map a few days ago to prevent future abuse of tracks=2 as tagging > for the renderer. I thank ITO for their quick reaction (the took the map > offline). http://www.itoworld.com/map/group/1 > > Best regards > > Michael aka Nakaner > > [1] via my cleanup account Nakaner-repair > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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