Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-22 Thread Toby Murray
Relevant to this thread: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/11379535 First edit by a user deleted a good chunk of the Brazilian territorial waters boundary. I have sent a message to the user and will likely revert this changeset. Toby ___

Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-22 Thread SomeoneElse
Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote: It would be _super_ good if we had some tool that would flag and notify some advanced active mapper in a given area of any changesets that delete more than 2 features. .. I'd be totally up for checking any and all changesets in Haiti that delete _anything_. ..

Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-21 Thread Jaakko Helleranta.com
/GoogleTalk: jhelleranta -Original Message- From: Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:56:08 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] New editors This seems to be a recurring thing. I have personally caught, contacted and reverted 3 people who just wanted

Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-21 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 17:28 +, Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote: It would be _super_ good if we had some tool that would flag and notify some advanced active mapper in a given area of any changesets that delete more than 2 features. .. I'd be totally up for checking any and all changesets in

Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-21 Thread Toby Murray
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 17:28 +, Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote: It would be _super_ good if we had some tool that would flag and notify some advanced active mapper in a given area of any changesets that delete more

Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-19 Thread Floris Looijesteijn
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: ...   But one newbie deleted about 300 streets, seemingly for a wedding-related event map :-( ... I couldn't help laughing, that's actually pretty funny. Did you contact the user? Greetings, Floris Looijesteijn

Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-19 Thread Mike N
On 4/19/2012 3:50 AM, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Mike Nnice...@att.net wrote: ... But one newbie deleted about 300 streets, seemingly for a wedding-related event map :-( ... I couldn't help laughing, that's actually pretty funny. Did you contact the

Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 4/19/2012 3:50 AM, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Mike Nnice...@att.net  wrote: ...   But one newbie deleted about 300 streets, seemingly for a wedding-related event map :-( ... I couldn't

Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-19 Thread nicholas . g . lawrence
  But one newbie deleted about 300 streets, seemingly for a wedding-related event map :-( ... I couldn't help laughing, that's actually pretty funny. Did you contact the user?  Yes, I sent a message, but got no reply.  Perhaps they were too embarrassed, so the revert

Re: [OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-19 Thread Toby Murray
This seems to be a recurring thing. I have personally caught, contacted and reverted 3 people who just wanted a simplified map of an area. I just happened to spot their edits in LiveEditMapViewer. I haven't really been paying as much attention to it lately so I'm sure a number of such edits have

[OSM-talk] New editors

2012-04-18 Thread Mike N
In this area, there's been a surprising number of new contributors in the last 2 months: about 5 altogether. This is most likely from publicity received from the news stories surrounding the #switch2osm cases. In one case, they had actually registered a year ago, but made no edits until