Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism/user error?

2009-09-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/09/2009 00:10, Richard Fairhurst wrote: David Earl wrote: Richard - why do we still need this mode now you can save in Potlatch and groups of changes fit much better with changesets anyway? Lots of people still prefer it. I've not seen any evidence of people mistakenly selecting it

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism/user error?

2009-09-09 Thread Liz
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, David Earl wrote: On 09/09/2009 00:10, Richard Fairhurst wrote: David Earl wrote: Richard - why do we still need this mode now you can save in Potlatch and groups of changes fit much better with changesets anyway? Lots of people still prefer it. I've not seen any

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism/user error?

2009-09-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Earl wrote: I had to revert changes for someone this week who specifically said to me that's what had happened - he didn't realize he was editing live data. People don't read stuff in front of them. Well, you can't completely idiot-proof these things, and it's a great shame to

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism/user error?

2009-09-09 Thread wynndale
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, David Earl wrote: On 09/09/2009 00:10, Richard Fairhurst wrote: David Earl wrote: Richard - why do we still need this mode now you can save in Potlatch and groups of changes fit much better with changesets anyway? Lots of people still prefer it. I've not seen any

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism/user error?

2009-09-09 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:06 AM, wynnd...@lavabit.com wrote: Why not go straight into Edit and Save and then have a button to go to Edit Live (one click to go there as now)? +1 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism/user error?

2009-09-08 Thread David Earl
It's obviously nonsense - a way extending right across the globe! But it looks like scribbling, the kind of thing people do in Potlatch not realising they are editing the live map. Despite the prompts at the beginning people STILL don't realise they are doing this. This is the second time this

[OSM-talk] Vandalism/user error?

2009-09-08 Thread Chris Miller
I just discovered a suspicious looking edit while working on a map splitter tool (http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/page/tile-splitter), as follows: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/737502 The splitter tool ended up creating a separate area just for node 355719431, which is completely on

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism/user error?

2009-09-08 Thread Matthias Versen
Chris Miller wrote: than myself please delete it? I haven't done any editing of the osm data Deleted... Matthias ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism/user error?

2009-09-08 Thread Matthias Versen
David Earl wrote: It's obviously nonsense - a way extending right across the globe! But it looks like scribbling, the kind of thing people do in Potlatch not realising they are editing the live map. Despite the prompts at the beginning people STILL don't realise they are doing this. This is

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism/user error?

2009-09-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Earl wrote: Richard - why do we still need this mode now you can save in Potlatch and groups of changes fit much better with changesets anyway? Lots of people still prefer it. I've not seen any evidence of people mistakenly selecting it - I think the big lightning bolt is pretty