Re: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

Mike, did you change anything since? Mike and I were chatting offline about this but I don't think either of us edited anything. I'm on mobile now, will need to check the versions when I get back to a desk. On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:48 Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On

Re: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

Also I wrote one change set comment but there was no response. I figured I should escalate things once I saw entire relations destroyed and whole blocks changed. On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:55 Elliott Plack wrote: > Mike, did you change anything since? > > Mike and I were

Re: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

Agreed that clearly these edits need to be reverted and the account probably blocked, but just curious: is there no alternate service (akin to the historical maps project) for this person to play in? Luis On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 2:13 PM Elliott Plack wrote: > It looks

Re: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

Hi, On 09/11/2015 11:14 PM, Luis Villa wrote: > Agreed that clearly these edits need to be reverted and the account > probably blocked, but just curious: is there no alternate service (akin > to the historical maps project) for this person to play in? There's opengeofiction.net which uses OSM

Re: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

It looks like the user is at it again with the old account, has two edits 2 hours ago! http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Homicide%20Baltimore/history#map=15/39.2903/-76.5970 Here they just undid one of the reverted EDITS again: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/33966044 Here they just

Re: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

if he's ignoring clear requests to stop, would any other project want him? i see value in historic buildings but a bunch of the other stuff he's done makes him seem unattractive for any other project. On 9/11/15 5:14 PM, Luis Villa wrote: > Agreed that clearly these edits need to be reverted and

Re: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

Here is more evidence. Sigh... [image: 2015-09-11 17_12_59-OpenStreetMap _ Node History_ 2961990839.png] On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:11 PM Elliott Plack wrote: > It looks like the user is at it again with the old account, has two edits > 2 hours ago! > > >

Re: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

On 9/10/15 6:34 PM, Elliott Plack wrote: > This is very strange! The user HomicideBaltimore has been mapping all > kinds of buildings around Baltimore that don't exist. They're old > public housing projects or rowhomes that were razed, but seem to have > been used on the set of the NBC show

Re: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:34:48 + To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org; imports...@openstreetmap.org CC: ad...@mapsplease.net; openstreet...@mpetroff.net; rwcr...@comcast.net; bknight...@gmail.com Subject: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over

Re: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/804 placed to force the user to read it before they can continue to edit. If needed, I can merge all the users changes and revert them in one go. On 9/10/2015 3:34 PM, Elliott Plack wrote: This is very strange! The user HomicideBaltimore has been

Re: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

Is all 200 changesets the same? If so i"d report it to the data working group. Here's there email - d...@osmfoundation.org The only reason i suggest this instead of handing out yourself it's due to the large amount of changesets. On Sep 10, 2015 6:10 PM, "Elliott Plack"

Re: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

On 11/09/2015 05:42, Richard Welty wrote: try contacting him through the OSM messaging system and ask him what his intent is. explain (politely) that OSM is for things that exist now, and there are alternate ways of handling historical data (e.g. OHM). Generally I'd suggest using changeset

Re: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Andy Townsend wrote: > On 11/09/2015 05:42, Richard Welty wrote: > >> try contacting him through the OSM messaging system and ask him what his >> intent is. >> explain (politely) that OSM is for things that exist now, and there are >> alternate

Re: [Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

Hi, On 09/11/2015 05:08 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > I've added at least one changeset comment and have also sent a message. > The user has not responded to either. Given that the user has obviously read and ignored Paul's block message, I have had to put in a new block, and have reverted all his

[Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

This is very strange! The user HomicideBaltimore has been mapping all kinds of buildings around Baltimore that don't exist. They're old public housing projects or rowhomes that were razed, but seem to have been used on the set of the NBC show Homicide, Life on the Streets, shot in Baltimore. What