On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Ben Last <ben.l...@nearmap.com> wrote:

> On 3 August 2010 18:13, Dave F. <dave...@madasafish.com> wrote:
>
>> Can somebody revert this edit ASAP?
>>
>
> Which reminds me... we at NearMap are preparing to begin rollout of OSM
> editing on our site; simple operations like adding house numbers and
> adding/correcting street names.  Edits can be made by registered users of
> our site through a simple interface that's not as scary as Potlatch :)  Our
> aim is therefore to encourage non-mappers to contribute to OSM, since they
> won't have to worry about the complexities of tagging rules, etc.  Whilst we
> have a number of things in place to guard against vandalism and incorrect
> edits, we're also looking at the best ways to (a) tag uploaded edits so that
> they can be clearly extracted from the data and (b) work with the OSM
> community to revert bad edits.  We could do (b) by emailing the various
> lists, but is there a more efficient way to arrange to get edits reverted?
>  I'm looking for whatever way is least load on us *and* those in OSM who
> maintain the data.
>

Wasn't there a discussion a long while ago about a system of flagging
changesets (and users, too, probably) as bad/inappropriate/spammy? Enough
bad changesets = a nomination for revert or temp. ban/kick?
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