It does looks like he has been trying to contribute to the map, but is doing nearly everything wrong. In Cheadle particularly it looks like he has made a big effort to map the town in detail, but his work is full of spelling, capitalization and other errors.
Cheers Paul Williams (Paul The Archivist) On 8 August 2011 12:20, SomeoneElse <[email protected]> wrote: ... > Presumably there comes a point where we have to say "enough is enough"? The > general guidlines on the "http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vandalism" see > relevant here (even though I'm pretty sure that this isn't vandalism - just > incompetence). > > Along with other people, I've tried to contact darren39 several times over > the last year and have never had a reply. He's actually been editing since > October 2008 but is still adding unconnected streets with misspellings such > as "Shakespere Court" and "Tigar Yard" and with dubious positional accuracy. > > What does the community think the next step should be? Is it an email to > the data working group or is that only relevant for actual vandalism rather > than just crap mapping? Obviously this would have to take place in parallel > with fixing the data - but we've repainting that particular Forth Bridge for > 3 years now* and patching the gaps in the A52 and A523 gets tedious when you > do it for the third time. > > Cheers, > Andy > > > *http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2008-November/006764.html > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

