Alan,
Your phrase "The name tag of New York City should be an obvious example
- what would cause it to change" - That makes a lot of sense. To
further expand on this thought, identify and prioritize features in OSM
that theoretically should not change much at all over long periods of
time. Others have probably already thought of this, but it does seem
like a really good idea to prioritize high-profile / large features and
have the QA tools out there score these very highly for review ASAP.
Like out of thousands of small "potential issues" to look at in a day, a
name change to New York City is priority #1 four alarm fire to respond
to right away, because its scored very highly as a prominent feature
that should not change. Recent Great Lakes name changes also come to mind.
Brian
On 9/4/2018 9:36 PM, Alan Brown wrote:
Hi -
I haven't commented on this forum for several years, but this event
did catch my attention.
There are some uses of OSM map data which would not allow for frequent
updates - offline uses - and therefore, a way of catching such
vandalism immediately - less than a day, even - would be very helpful.
The thought that occurred, is that certain attributes of certain high
profile objects should be caught - or even stopped - very early. The
name tag of New York City should be an obvious example - what would
cause it to change (short of us selling it back to the Dutch, or
similar event)? A new user, offensive language (one of the new street
names in the changelist had the word "fuck", and "Adolf Hilter") -
these should be immediate red flags. In principle, changelists could
be submitted to some sort criteria that could trigg moderation,
instead of automatically checking it in.
Granted, it would be nearly impossible to make this criteria perfect:
there's not offensive about the word "Jew", but it was applied in an
offensive way in this situation; I'd have no idea what would be
offensive in Hungarian, much less Thai; someone could draw something
offensive (like a peeing Android) that would be very hard to catch;
there are places like "Dildo, Newfoundland" that are legitimate. But
I don't think it would be all that hard to flag a changelist like this
last vandalism, without interrupting legitimate edits by very much.
At very least, you can force your vandals to be clever to succeed.
In our usage, we will scan the names of significant objects for
potentially offensive changes. But it would be good to have some sort
of gateway in the OSM database itself. I don't understand any of the
details of the OSM check-in process, if there is any monitoring for
potential vandalism.
-Alan
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