Yes, I looked at the first user in the list and the first page of changesets 
loaded with one close to me which is a railway platform apparently in the 
middle of a housing estate. 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/24439915

As it’s a U_Bahn entry I'm assuming its meant to be a platform on an 
underground line that’s just totally in the wrong geographical location. 
However the name of "station 1" might suggest its someone practicing too.

Reverting and will look for others in the west mids area.

Cheers
Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: SomeoneElse [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 12 November 2014 10:23
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Railway edits in the UK that could perhaps benefit from 
a bit of checking.

More info on this - it seems to be a bunch of people working for this
company:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/%C3%96V_Firma_Mentz_Datenverarbeitung_GmbH

I've had no reply from the mapper that I tried to contact (although they have 
fixed at least one of the problems that they created) so I've tried again via 
direct message, comment on the firm's OSM wiki page and an OSM message to the 
company's main OSM account.

What concerns me is that they're still editing (with various accounts).  
It's relatively easy to trace straight lines from Bing, but it needs experience 
and interpretation (and a local survey!) to see how everything on the ground 
relates to everything else.

Based on their error rate so far I'd definitely still suggest that local 
mappers check their edits.

Cheers,

Andy


On 08/11/2014 22:51, SomeoneElse wrote:
> An anonymous note adder (http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/267719) and 
> someone on IRC noticed some problematical railway edits near
> Sutton-in-Ashfield:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/311380489#map=15/53.1247/-1.2346&laye
> rs=N
>
>
> It looks like an attempt to dual the Robin Hood line went a bit wrong 
> and ended up slicing through an industrial estate and some areas of 
> housing (though I'm sure it was "cock-up rather than conspiracy" as 
> Sir Bernard Ingham would have said).  Looking at some other edits in 
> the same changeset, there are some other, less obvious, issues too, 
> which I've added to the changeset discussion:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26590071
>
> The most obvious problem seems to be "tracing the railway in but not 
> joining properly to other features (such as crossings)".  Some 
> information (e.g. "cutting=yes") has also been lost.
>
> Another local changeset:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26587435
> has some similar issues.
>
> There have been a number of other edits, some with rather a lot of 
> deletions in them, including:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26613977
>
> All of these changesets could probably also benefit from a review from 
> local mappers to identify potential issues.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
>
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