Olá a todos, Eu queria-vos dar a conhecer que enviei para o Data Working Group (DWG) um e-mail sobre esta situação, assim como o pedido para reverter tudo o que a minha conta de importação fez desde o dia que a criei.
Coloco abaixo a mensagem que enviei-lhes, na sua integra, para assim todos terem o conhecimento do que eu escrevi. Com toda a estima, Marcos Oliveira Data Working Group, > > Hello, I am Marcos Oliveira and I'm contacting you to discuss about a > current problem that exists in the Portuguese OSM community where I am the > sole responsible in question. > > The issue is regarding the alteration and addition of administrative > boundaries and natural parks through my alternate account, > ViriatoLusitano_import. [1] > > A user, Francisco, submitted a thread in the Portuguese mailing list [2] > stating how I have been disrespecting the work of others by eliminating > nodes, ways and relations, namely places and boundaries (administrative and > natural parks), claiming that I've been doing outright vandalism. He also > claims to have sent you an e-mail about this situation. > > Let me show you my version of the story. I want it to be explicitly known > that I'm *not claiming* to be innocent, I admit I've done many things > wrong but vandalizing is not one of them. > > Francisco brought forward three main issues that I've caused: > > 1. The deletion of ways and relations that other users have made > 2. The modification of Portugal/Spain boundary > 3. The removal of places, namely hamlets > > Regarding the first point, when I began working on manually importing > administrative boundaries back on the 12th of September, I always tried > working using the existing elements that were contributed by other people. > The problem was that whenever I tried to upload the progress I've done > (after successfully validating), there appeared conflicts in the data, > sometimes in the hundreds. > > Since I didn't want to mess and probably ruin different types of data > other than administrative boundaries, I opted to first remove the old > boundaries where I later carefully imported my own work, without first > contacting the Portuguese community about this. > > Just recently I have learned to use the "replace geometry" tool that the > *utilsplugin2* plugin offers to conflate the data; now I can work without > ever having to delete a way nor any relations whatsoever. > > Regarding the second point, while I was working near the boundary with > Spain I found out that there were places where the boundary was erroneous: > sometimes our (or their) territory was hundreds of meters away from were it > was supposed to be. > > What I've done was, (again, I didn't want to cause any conflicts with the > existing data), remove the old way while at the same time replacing it with > one that followed official data from CAOP 2014 as well as it having all the > tags it previously had, including relations that included said way. > > Again, in my ignorance, I disregarded it as something unimportant to > discuss with the Portuguese and the Spanish community because I thoroughly > checked every relation to see if I was not breaking anything. > > Regarding the third point, I removed a lot of hamlets, not because I > didn't like them, but because I was suspicious they were bad data that was > transcribed either from gpspostcode [3] (licence not compatible with OSM) > or Google because a lot of hamlets had the exact same coordinates as the > information provided by the entities I mentioned just now. Once again, I > didn't discuss this removal with the community. > > I've always planned on replacing the data because I don't like removing > data from OSM. I asked some family members that live in the same general > area where the removals were made about the many hamlets that existed. As > of now I've already received information for one municipality which I > promptly edited back into OSM. [4] > > In short, I have removed existing data and replaced it with data that was > 100% manually verified that was of same or better quality. The central > problem is that I removed the history that contributors before me have > made. This is a very big mistake I've done, I admit, but it is not > vandalism. > > Having stated my arguments, I also come to you to ask permission for you > to completely revert my import account in order to correct the mistakes > I've done. > > A friendly contributor called naoliv, and I have been trying to find all > day a way to successfully conflate the old, deleted data with the new, > improved data that I've inserted. What we have found is that it is possible > but will take a very long time and it is actually more time efficient to > just revert all my edits and start anew, respecting the work of others and > the wishes of the community as I should always have done. > > My motto is to help, not hurt the work of others. > > I'm deeply sorry for doing what I've done, it won't happen again. > > Yours sincerely, > Marcos Oliveira aka. ViriatoLusitano > > [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ViriatoLusitano_import > [2] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-pt/2014-November/001038.html > [3] http://www.gpspostcode.com/ > [4] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26834569?node_page=6 > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26834569?node_page=6> >
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