Warning this is a bit of a rant, I think the tools for reverting a change-set need to be greatly improved/exist.
I recently had something that I consider non-intentional vandalism (large number of nodes deleted, apparently anything less than 2.5 metres accuracy is not required, according to someone who's been with this project for a few weeks!), that need reverting after wasting an hour decided it was not really possible with a few clicks/commands and after a day of being pissed-off with the whole scenario decided to look on the positive side, that being a map review was in order and this gave a good opportunity to see where the data was less accurate as I would like(1 metre) and go about further surveying. I contacted the user and he still sees it different to me. Anyway it will take many hours to restore these node, and if I do what happens next-time? The project seems to lack general goals, or I have never come across them, - Is it to provide a map useful for navigation by GPS only and onscreen map? - Is there room for accurate data for the purposes of GIS and other advanced spatial tools? Some ideas for improvements; - A group of people looking after a specific spatial area. - Perhaps there should be a review situation with data similar to applying patches the source code repository. - visual tools to see what happens when a change-set is accepted (maybe only for large deletes). - A method to place accuracy information on specific data, maybe there is a method just never used. - Stricter guidelines especially when using tools such as simply-way in JOSM, but I don't really want to start on the stupidity of using this tool! It would be great to be able to make it technically possible for users that work with spatial data commercially to be able to import/export data into OSM, but I think disrespect for other peoples data will stop many people wanting to include this functionality with the current framework. (Even with the tagging sorted out). Evan On Thursday 03 Sep 2009 11:55:22 John Smith wrote: > 2009/9/3 Liz <[email protected]>: > > I'd think that when we hit by vandalism in AU we would be talking on the > > local list and making a decision on reverting changes. > > I would think that a "higher status" mapper would be actually permitted > > to make the changes rather than anyone. > > I've actually been pondering about this, I think we need to be a lot > more pro-active about vandalism than some seem to be taking it on the > main talk list, where it's someone else's problem. > > Perhaps we should go so far as to flesh out a policy on what should be > done if people notice wide spread vandalism. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
