From: "Frederik Ramm" <[email protected]> > > Pieren wrote: >> I say that because I spent a little bit time to look the edits of this >> person, working intensively in different countries with a lot of short >> edits and after one day of the first alarms about this user. > > But do you even have anyhing to prove that this is vandalism? Just > because a new account makes lots of edits in different places doesn't > mean anything...
I ran into just this sort of thing with a new account set up about a day after our RR8 friend. Rapid edits in several countries; dirt tracks in Italy and the wilds of Canada... and a boulevard near me in what was last an open field in the most recent aerial photography. The boulevard was in 2 segments which overlapped each other, didn't connect to any other roadway, and one of them was mis-spelled. So I asked the mapper where they got their information for the new roadway - they replied that they used to live here and had a legitimate web reference to the new road name and location. So I believe that the way(s) in my area are real and just created from a rough GPS track, or perhaps even from memory. I'll run a GPS track survey on it next time I drive by there. So while I have no way of knowing about RR8, I can appreciate the process not instantly vaporizing suspicious activity. Hopefully the RR8 will be resolved without people losing work. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
