[Talk-GB] Getting vandalism reverted without associating email address with location

2013-08-05 Thread David Woolley
Is there any mechanism for reporting and reverting vandalism that doesn't tend to associate the non-OSM internet identity of the reporter with their likely physical location. As far as possible I try to avoid my internet ID and my physical location being associated, but assume that the OSM ID

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting vandalism reverted without associating email address with location

2013-08-05 Thread SomeoneElse
David Woolley wrote: I don't even want to go into too much detail about the nature of the vandalism here. If you did want to give an example without making any specific reference, perhaps you could perform similar vandalism (in a different place with different names / other identifying info)

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting vandalism reverted without associating email address with location

2013-08-05 Thread David Woolley
On 05/08/13 11:22, SomeoneElse wrote: David Woolley wrote: I don't even want to go into too much detail about the nature of the vandalism here. If you did want to give an example without making any specific reference, perhaps you could perform similar vandalism (in a different place with

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting vandalism reverted without associating email address with location

2013-08-05 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2013-08-05 12:20, David Woolley wrote: An off list exchange suggests the problem could have been caused by someone trying to declutter a map for private use without realising they were making public changes. However, the problem still remains of how to get it reverted, other than by

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting vandalism reverted without associating email address with location

2013-08-05 Thread David Woolley
On 05/08/13 12:37, Craig Wallace wrote: You can revert it yourself, using the JOSM reverter plugin. OK Thanks. I suspected something like that must exist, but I'd got to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vandalism, which led me to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GB_revert_request_log,

Re: [Talk-GB] Getting vandalism reverted without associating email address with location

2013-08-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05.08.2013 12:16, David Woolley wrote: Is there any mechanism for reporting and reverting vandalism that doesn't tend to associate the non-OSM internet identity of the reporter with their likely physical location. You can send a message to the OSM user OSMF Data Working Group which