Depending on the case, you can immediately revert the change (e.g. with the revert plugin in JOSM), or first contact the other mapper to inform him/her about the problem. Informing the user is preferred as this give you insight in the reasoning about the mapping or might teach the other mapper about his/her mistakes.
The immediate revert might be needed for larger changes and when you are sure that the mapping is wrong. If there are smaller problems, it might be more interesting to allow the other mapper to correct the mistakes. A revert becomes harder when other people start editing in that area as well. In some cases, you will not get an answer after a few days, you can still do a revert, or just update the data (which might be easier and faster than a revert). The preferred way to discuss a problem is via changeset comments. The Data Working Group always asks to do this, in case it turns into an edit war, they have something to follow. I do not always follow this rule of communication, especially when the same user keeps on making the same mistake or has not made an edit in a long time OSM is a community project, so communication is important. regards m On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Steven Clays <steven.cl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks! Is there a procedure for reverting outright errors or sabotage? Can > I do this myself? > (To be clear: it is a hypothetical question, untill now it did not happen!) > > 2016-12-22 19:15 GMT+01:00 Glenn Plas <gl...@byte-consult.be>: >> >> On 22-12-16 17:36, Steven Clays wrote: >> > Hallo, >> > >> > dit is misschien een beetje een basisvraagje, maar ik vond het antwoord >> > nergens. Is er een mogelijkheid om op de hoogte gehouden te worden van >> > de aanpassingen die een andere gebruiker maakt aan de wijzigingen die je >> > zelf hebt toegevoegd? >> > >> > This is perhaps a basis question, but I cannot immediately find an >> > answer. Is there any possibility to get a notification when somebody >> > edits a feature / geometry / tag / / ... you submitted earlier? >> >> you can use Osmose [1] and WhoDidIt [2]. Osmose tracks errors on the >> last objects your target has touched. WhoDidIt uses a bounding box area >> you wish to monitor. Very handy. That's how I keep track of a few >> large areas. >> >> I recommend using an RSS feed reader (thunderbird for example) for both. >> They both support getting this using RSS >> >> Glenn >> >> >> [1] http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/byuser/ >> [2] http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/whodidit/ >> > >> > Merci voor het antwoord! >> > Thanks for helping me out! >> > >> > Steven >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Talk-be mailing list >> > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org >> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-be mailing list >> Talk-be@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
