Re: [Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-25 Thread SomeoneElse
Philip Barnes wrote: The number of edits suggests to me that they are not inexperienced. Is it possible to get some sort of block until they start responding to emails? Phil (trigpoint) Unfortunately, the problem is still occurring:

Re: [Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-19 Thread SomeoneElse
On 18/03/2014 07:13, Filip Chirita Rares Cristian wrote: What seems to be the general purpose of his edits? His change sets have no comments, so could it be that this is just a case of an inexperienced mapper, at worst a vandal? I'm not sure what the purpose is, as I've not had a reply to

Re: [Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-19 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
Well there's a difference between armchair mapping and making things look nice. As far as I can see this is a user who has no changeset comments and although contacted, hasn't replied. What should be done? I'm inclined to, then, put this into the vandalism section. Opinions? Chris On Wed, Mar

Re: [Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-19 Thread Philip Barnes
The number of edits suggests to me that they are not inexperienced. Is it possible to get some sort of block until they start responding to emails? Phil (trigpoint) -- Sent from my Nokia N9 On 19/03/2014 10:21 SomeoneElse wrote: On 18/03/2014 07:13, Filip Chirita Rares Cristian wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-19 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
According to this, there's a lot of edits all over the UK, but also in the US, in some non-descript towns. http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?dbisping Since the number of edits is so high, over 4 years, I don't think reverting everything this user's done is a viable option. Does anyone know if the bad

Re: [Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-19 Thread SomeoneElse
On 19/03/2014 11:04, Filip Chirita Rares Cristian wrote: According to this, there's a lot of edits all over the UK, but also in the US, in some non-descript towns. http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?dbisping Since the number of edits is so high, over 4 years, I don't think reverting everything this

Re: [Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-19 Thread Ed Loach
I checked a couple of changesets that were local enough to have appeared in one of the RSS feeds of activity in my local area (April 2013). In those two changesets as far as I could make out the only changes were additional nodes in the ways (A12 and adjacent). Checking back to late 2011 they

Re: [Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-18 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
What seems to be the general purpose of his edits? His change sets have no comments, so could it be that this is just a case of an inexperienced mapper, at worst a vandal? Chris On Mar 18, 2014 5:08 AM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: There has been a large series of recent edits

[Talk-GB] Problems with armchair edits of major road junctions in England

2014-03-17 Thread SomeoneElse
There has been a large series of recent edits to major road junctions across England such as: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/21125717 There have been about half a dozen by the same mapper near me (I'm in North Derbyshire) which are problematical for a number of reasons: a) Bus