Olá a todos,
A reversão terminou e foi um sucesso. Ao contrário do que anteriormente
estipulei, o trabalho todo foi dividido em apenas cinco changesets. [1] [2]
[3] [4] [5]
O processo em si demorou cinco horas e meia a ser realizado. A maior parte
deste feita entre as 02h30 e as 8h00 sendo que o changeset final (que
consistia em 147 objetos) foi realizado às 12h05.
Agora e durante os próximos dias irei procurar por erros ou dados que
tenham ficado danificados.
Também queria avisar que o único problema que surgiu desta reversão foi que
alguns elementos de uma pequena cidade grega foram alterados. [6] A razão
para tal acontecer foi mais provavelmente porque inseri erroneamente um
changeset durante o processo de reversão.
[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26920648
[2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26921181
[3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26922209
[4] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26922498
[5] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26927216
[6] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/19932294
2014-11-19 0:07 GMT+00:00 Marcos Oliveira marcosoliveira.2...@gmail.com:
Olá a todos,
Eu queria-vos dar a conhecer que enviei para o Data Working Group (DWG) um
e-mail sobre esta situação, assim como o pedido para reverter tudo o que a
minha conta de importação fez desde o dia que a criei.
Coloco abaixo a mensagem que enviei-lhes, na sua integra, para assim todos
terem o conhecimento do que eu escrevi.
Com toda a estima,
Marcos Oliveira
Data Working Group,
Hello, I am Marcos Oliveira and I'm contacting you to discuss about a
current problem that exists in the Portuguese OSM community where I am the
sole responsible in question.
The issue is regarding the alteration and addition of administrative
boundaries and natural parks through my alternate account,
ViriatoLusitano_import. [1]
A user, Francisco, submitted a thread in the Portuguese mailing list [2]
stating how I have been disrespecting the work of others by eliminating
nodes, ways and relations, namely places and boundaries (administrative and
natural parks), claiming that I've been doing outright vandalism. He also
claims to have sent you an e-mail about this situation.
Let me show you my version of the story. I want it to be explicitly known
that I'm *not claiming* to be innocent, I admit I've done many things
wrong but vandalizing is not one of them.
Francisco brought forward three main issues that I've caused:
1. The deletion of ways and relations that other users have made
2. The modification of Portugal/Spain boundary
3. The removal of places, namely hamlets
Regarding the first point, when I began working on manually importing
administrative boundaries back on the 12th of September, I always tried
working using the existing elements that were contributed by other people.
The problem was that whenever I tried to upload the progress I've done
(after successfully validating), there appeared conflicts in the data,
sometimes in the hundreds.
Since I didn't want to mess and probably ruin different types of data
other than administrative boundaries, I opted to first remove the old
boundaries where I later carefully imported my own work, without first
contacting the Portuguese community about this.
Just recently I have learned to use the replace geometry tool that the
*utilsplugin2* plugin offers to conflate the data; now I can work
without ever having to delete a way nor any relations whatsoever.
Regarding the second point, while I was working near the boundary with
Spain I found out that there were places where the boundary was erroneous:
sometimes our (or their) territory was hundreds of meters away from were it
was supposed to be.
What I've done was, (again, I didn't want to cause any conflicts with the
existing data), remove the old way while at the same time replacing it with
one that followed official data from CAOP 2014 as well as it having all the
tags it previously had, including relations that included said way.
Again, in my ignorance, I disregarded it as something unimportant to
discuss with the Portuguese and the Spanish community because I thoroughly
checked every relation to see if I was not breaking anything.
Regarding the third point, I removed a lot of hamlets, not because I
didn't like them, but because I was suspicious they were bad data that was
transcribed either from gpspostcode [3] (licence not compatible with OSM)
or Google because a lot of hamlets had the exact same coordinates as the
information provided by the entities I mentioned just now. Once again, I
didn't discuss this removal with the community.
I've always planned on replacing the data because I don't like removing
data from OSM. I asked some family members that live in the same general
area where the removals were made about the many hamlets that existed. As
of now I've already received information for one municipality which I
promptly edited back
