Hi, About a week ago edits against the editing norm in the village of Veberöd in Sweden ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Linus%20Olsson/history ) was noticed by me and Essin, who are both active editors in this region in Sweden. I first tried writing a changeset message telling him his edits are appreciated, but he should read up on editing norms and look in other areas, and that his edits will probably be reverted. I also recommended some ways to contact the community ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/51485420 ). This didn't help though and he's still editing, now starting to edit bigger roads which can have a bigger impact on routing than the misguided edits inside the village (that still break routing though).
I tried to send an email to DWG explaining this, but have got no reply a week after I sent it. I tried reverting with the only means I know, the Revert UI. It didn't work since someone had already edited relations in the area. Essin has said he could be willing to try to revert in Josm, but a more experienced hand might be needed. Below I'm including the email I sent to DWG with more details. "I would like to ask for some help reverting edits by a new user in Veberöd in Sweden. The user made a lot of small edits in ID over the past week and have for example 1) changed highway tags https://www.openstreetmap.org/ way/311389509/history , 2) drawn separate ways in either direction even for residential streets https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/55.63105/13.50659 , 3) drawn complex overlapping streets for simple intersections https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/55.63327/13.49399 4) broken relations, 5) drawn separate foot/cycleways when in reality they are the same way and finally 6) started attempts at editing, probably gotten confused and simply uploaded broken data The edits can be seen here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/ user/Linus%20Olsson/history The biggest mess is probably this roundabout: https://www. openstreetmap.org/#map=19/55.63395/13.49738 or here: https://www. openstreetmap.org/#map=19/55.63522/13.49057 I have contacted the mapper in a changeset comment and tried to write an encouraging message that edits are welcome but as a new user he should be a little careful before he starts reinventing the way we map (in Swedish, I can translate if necessary): http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/51485420 I suspect no ill intent. I also tried to revert myself with http://revert.osmz.ru but was unsuccessful, since someone has edited relations after his latest edit. I feel it's a bit beyond my editing skills to try to revert all of this manually, and not miss anything or by accident delete history. I also believe the user has already deleted history and replaced streets with streets drawn by him. It would be nice if you could be of help in reverting all of this, before people start reverting small bits of it and mess up the data even more." Can we get some help here please with either reverting or blocking if he doesn't stop editing against conventions? Regards Andreas
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