Re: [Talk-us] Deletion rampage by a certain user

2015-05-19 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 08:04 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: I'm comfortable executing this but I love exact specifications: Undelete everything deleted by user U since time T unless the object was also created by U would work. That works for me, but I really would like to see a clarification from

Re: [Talk-us] Strange changeset found

2015-05-19 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
The mapper in question is still active, with reasonable edits. So it looks like a mistake, or a newbie mistake. Revert anyway. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Removing a CDP

2015-05-19 Thread Clifford Snow
That is what I thought as well. It is now gone. If I didn't screw up the boundary multipolygons everything should be correct. (I hate boundaries!!!) Thanks for the help, Clifford On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, U.S. Census Bureau treats them as

Re: [Talk-us] Strange changeset found

2015-05-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05/20/2015 05:47 AM, Jason Straub wrote: Was working through some railroad edits, and stumbled upon an odd edit in the city of Graham, TX. Investigating further, I traced it back to this changeset: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/24254640, in which the editor added addr:city

[Talk-us] Removing a CDP

2015-05-19 Thread Clifford Snow
I would like to remove Machias, Washington admin_level 8 since it does not exist as a city in Washington. It has been there for a number of years apparently added by a bot. I plan to leave it as a CDP locality node. There doesn't seem to be any chance that it will become a city and will most

Re: [Talk-us] Removing a CDP

2015-05-19 Thread Richard Welty
On 5/19/15 8:35 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: I would like to remove Machias, Washington admin_level 8 since it does not exist as a city in Washington. It has been there for a number of years apparently added by a bot. I plan to leave it as a CDP locality node. There doesn't seem to be any chance

[Talk-us] Strange changeset found

2015-05-19 Thread Jason Straub
Morning all, Was working through some railroad edits, and stumbled upon an odd edit in the city of Graham, TX.  Investigating further, I traced it back to this changeset: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/24254640, in which the editor added addr:city and addr:postcode to every single

Re: [Talk-us] Removing a CDP

2015-05-19 Thread Steven Johnson
The nodes w/ place names are good to have to support a healthy gazetteer function. Much harder to make a case for keeping CDP boundaries. --SEJ Sent from my electronic tether. On 2015年5月19日, at 20:47, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 5/19/15 8:35 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: I

Re: [Talk-us] Removing a CDP

2015-05-19 Thread Steven Johnson
Yes, U.S. Census Bureau treats them as statistical, not aim boundaries. --SEJ Sent from my electronic tether. On 2015年5月19日, at 21:33, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote: On 5/19/15 Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: they probably shouldn't be in an administrative boundary

[Talk-us] Quick survey about mapathons for SOTMUS

2015-05-19 Thread Robin Tolochko
Hey y'all, I am giving a lightning talk http://stateofthemap.us/lightning-talks-sun/ at SOTMUS on how to organize a mapathon and would like your input! The way that I can give the best advice is to hear from people who have organized and attended mapathons in lots of different places. It will

Re: [Talk-us] Deletion rampage by a certain user

2015-05-19 Thread Clay Smalley
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 1:11 AM Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com wrote: If we were able to look at his changeset comments and see withdraw additions tainted by Google data or similar, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion right now. I disagree. In this group of changesets, he has

[Talk-us] Detection of suspicious edits

2015-05-19 Thread Mike N
On 5/18/2015 7:13 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: At first glance it really looks as if the user did nothing more than random deletions across the country. I wonder why it hasn't been noticed before. In the US, it's probably related to the number of regular mappers per unit area. If no mappers

Re: [Talk-us] Deletion rampage by a certain user

2015-05-19 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 17:24 +, Clay Smalley wrote: I disagree. In this group of changesets, he has deleted things that were not added by himself. He deleted my own original work that I surveyed and traced. And I'm baffled as to why. We would have at least had some idea what was going

Re: [Talk-us] Deletion rampage by a certain user

2015-05-19 Thread James Mast
Yeah, I think Cam4rd98 was just deleting stuff for kicks possibly I just was checking he deletions, and noticed he completely deleted a brand new expressway [1] that I traced out and added in Fayetteville, NC [2]. Sure, some of the ways originally used the same IDs of ways he created, but,