Something similar happened in my region recently, someone new to josm managed to turn a park around 100m across into a 2km diameter circle, and mangled the ways nearby. A quick email to the user revealed he was new to josm and wasnt even aware of what he had done. Fortunately the mess was easily fixed, but luckily I contacted the bloke, and he was apologetic and continues to ask questions to learn how to use osm/josm better.
Sometimes the diplomatic approach can be best. David On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 23:08 +1100, Richard Colless wrote: > This could have been an accident, not malicious damage. > > When I was editing streets in my home suburb, mainly just adding in > street names, I needed to cut a street at a node because it changes > its name. Somewhere along the way, the street disappeared. When I > edited it (using Potlatch), the street was still there, but never > showed up in the rendered version. I tried making subtle changes to > force it to save the changes but to no avail. I eventually deleted the > street entirely, saved the change, and replaced the street (from > Yahoo) a few hours later. I suspect Potlatch may have some hidden bugs > that only show up under certain odd conditions. > > I've done a lot of editing (in Potlatch and JOSM) since then, and have > never had the same problem. It could be that the problem only occurs > when you do a few small changes, save them and wait to see the result > - just the sort of thing a novice user would do. > > Richard > > John Smith wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Apollinaris Schoell <[email protected]> > > Date: 2 February 2010 17:22 > > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] Most of Busselton deleted > > To: John Smith <[email protected]> > > Cc: Arie Paap <[email protected]>, Talk Openstreetmap > > <[email protected]> > > > > > > will do it, no conflicts detected in dry run > > edit definitely looks destruction done by a newbie > > please notify the user why this has been done and explain how to edit. > > > > > > > > > > On 1 Feb 2010, at 21:54 , John Smith wrote: > > > > > > > I've forwarded a copy of your email to the main talk list, some people > > > have scripts to be able to easily revert changes but I don't have > > > anything set up at present. > > > > > > On 2 February 2010 15:45, Arie Paap <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Can someone suggest how to deal with this kind of vandalism: > > > > > > > > Most of Busselton appears to have been deleted by user MAA on > > > > 31/1/2010. See following links: > > > > > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-33.6573&lon=115.3547&zoom=12&layers=B000FTFT > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/MAA/edits > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/3756449 > > > > > > > > Is there an easy way to revert this kind of changeset? > > > > > > > > Arie > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Talk-au mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > talk mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
