Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

2008-10-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
Subtle vandalism will always be the hardest to spot. If it is imagined that it might become a problem, then perhaps uploading a change to anything which already existed could notify the last 1 or 2 people that amended that feature, as they are the most likely to know what is correct or be in

Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

2008-10-14 Thread Tristan Scott
I now use itoworld to give me a RSS feed for sessions of updates in my area (or indeed any defined area) Tristan 2008/10/14 Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subtle vandalism will always be the hardest to spot. If it is imagined that it might become a problem, then perhaps uploading a

Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

2008-10-11 Thread spaetz
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:34:11PM +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote: A completely different community project Discogs has following policy: - You can subscribe to news in area of your interest. - Voting on new data: Tell, how correct and accurate are these changes are. ... - Data with more

Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

2008-10-08 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Matthias Julius wrote: Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subtle vandalism will always be the hardest to spot. If it is imagined that it might become a problem, then perhaps uploading a change to anything which already existed could notify the last 1 or 2 people that amended that

Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

2008-10-08 Thread maning sambale
- Vote is a privilege, new users don't have vote privilege. -1, sorry. cheers, maning -- |-|--| | __.-._ |Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great. -Yoda | | '-._7' |Freedom is still the most radical idea of all

Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

2008-10-08 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Stanislav Brabec wrote: A completely different community project Discogs has following policy: - You can subscribe to news in area of your interest. - Voting on new data: Tell, how correct and accurate are these changes are. - Vote is a privilege, new users don't have vote privilege.

Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

2008-10-06 Thread Peter Miller
PROTECTED] Sent: 06 October 2008 12:53 To: Peter Miller Cc: Barnett, Phillip; Talk Openstreetmap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using OSM Mapper it is already possible to identify who is changing data within

Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

2008-10-06 Thread Matthias Julius
Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subtle vandalism will always be the hardest to spot. If it is imagined that it might become a problem, then perhaps uploading a change to anything which already existed could notify the last 1 or 2 people that amended that feature, as they are the most

Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

2008-10-06 Thread Nic Roets
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: A good diff tool or better a diff API call would be helpful as well. With that you could periodically look over the changes in your area. The first step will be a proper way back machine. But it hasn't been discussed

Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

2008-10-06 Thread Matthias Julius
Nic Roets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: A good diff tool or better a diff API call would be helpful as well. With that you could periodically look over the changes in your area. The first step will be a proper way back

Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

2008-10-03 Thread Peter Miller
Using OSM Mapper it is already possible to identify who is changing data within an defined area. I use this to monitor for changes in areas I care about using RSS setting up an RSS feed to check for all changes made by people other than me in the area. We developed the functionally in the

Re: [OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

2008-10-03 Thread Ed Loach
Jeffrey wrote: Well, none of the schemes proposed so far actually deal with the case of subtle vandalism. Subtle vandalism will always be the hardest to spot. If it is imagined that it might become a problem, then perhaps uploading a change to anything which already existed could notify the